Psychology of Midlife ... A woman with a positive animus shows assertiveness, control, thoughtful rationality, and compassionate strength. The negative animus reveals in strong opinions, ruthlessness, destructive forces, and "always the last word".
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According to Jung a negative animus in women often works like a group of inquisitional judges, e.g. psychological parts--ready to past a death sentence at any moment on those it deems at fault.
www.thearchetypalconnection.com/ANIMUS%20.htm www.thearchetypalconnection.com/ANIMUS%20.htm
The negative animus is no Lucy but is the woman who has low self-esteem and interjects all criticisms and colludes secretly with them. Men, for generations have succeeded in keeping women in their “inferior” place.
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The way out of the negative animus is to learn to differentiate the male principle from the male gender. Or better yet, to stop generalizing the negative actions of a human or humans into a blanket comment on the whole of humanity.
www.bellaonline.com/articles/art19124.asp
The anima and animus both have positive and negative aspects. Whether they are assisting us or sabotaging us largely has to do with our relationship to the opposite sex, usually the opposite sex of the first parental figure we came into contact with.
www.bellaonline.com/articles/art18886.asp
Hostility towards Arabs and Muslims is more widespread than it was in the immediate aftermath of Sept. ... 11, 2001. This negative animus provided the tinder for the "Dubai port controversy" and was, in turn, fuelled by the shameful way this issue was debated.
www.middleeastwindow.com/node/1622
Dr. James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute. ... Hostility towards Arabs and Muslims is more widespread than it was the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001. This negative animus both provided the tinder for the “Dubai port controversy” and was in turn, fueled by the shameful way...
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If he's dark and dangerous, you're projecting negative animus; if he's sensitive and committed, you're projecting positive animus. In most cases, you'll probably see both. (Please note that many if not most writers avoid using their ideals in pure form, and recognizing them is not the same thing as falling prey to them.) ;
www.freelancewriting.com/articles/article-romances-in-f... www.freelancewriting.com/articles/article-romances-in-fiction.php
The woman needs to recognize that these thoughts are from her negative Animus, her social conditioning or upbringing, and do not form part of her true nature: they arise only because she is out of touch with herself, and they act to keep her that way.
www.mythsdreamssymbols.com/womensdreams.html
In the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast (Disney's version used here) , the Beast reflects Belle's negative animus. Negative animuses are often animalistic monsters of some sort; his transformation into a prince represents the heroine's integration of her animus.
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