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The anima and animus , in Carl Jung's school of analytical psychology, are the unconscious or true inner self of an individual, as opposed to the persona or outer aspect of the personality. In the...
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Quotes by Carl Jung on his Theory of the Anima ... The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, ... The more remote and unreal the personal mother is,
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As we will see, practically everything Jung wrote about the anima has been challenged by various theorists, which might suggest Jung botched the job. But Jung claims to have had a rationale, and stated in 1950 that whatever ambiguity he may have perpetrated resulted from strategy, not laziness or incompetence:
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Animus and Anima: [from Watsky] Jung writes of the anima and animus that: "both archetypes ... can on occasion produce tragic results. They are quite actually father and mother of all the disastrous entanglements of fate....
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It is this realm of men’s feelings, especially in as much as they are closely bound to the unconscious, that Jung called the anima. More formally we could say that the anima is the feminine side of a man, or more graphically, inside every man is a woman whom he must come to terms with.
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"Soul image" sounds very pretty, but the Anima/Animus is not without a negative pole as well. Jung's anima whispered to him that what he was doing was "art". He rejected this and pushed ahead as a 'scientist' which was much better in a society which regards science as 'serious' and art as less so.
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In the words of Jung, "[J]ust as the anima of a man consists of inferior relatedness, full of affect, so the animus of woman consists of inferior judgments, or better, opinions." Alchemical Studies: The Secret of the Golden Flower (CW 13, par.60). Click here for this and other quotes from Jung about the animus,
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The anima has an erotic, emotional character, the animus a rationalizing one. Hence most of what men say about feminine eroticism, and particularly about the emotional life of women, is derived from their own anima projections and distorted accordingly.
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Secondary Progressions: Time to Remember (Paperback) ... ~ Nancy Hastings (Author) ... Paperback: 324 pages...
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[Carl] Jung postulates that each individual has both masculine and feminine components of the psyche. For a male the feminine component is the anima, and for a female it is the animus. Part and parcel of human biological and psychological ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Jung's Anima and Animus:
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