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What Are These Mysterious Things Called The Anima And The Animus?
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THE ANIMA - GREAT WORKING DEFINITIONS

Anima: [according to Marie Louise von Franz] "A personification of all feminine psychological tendencies in a man's psyche, such as vague feelings and moods, prophetic hunches, receptiveness to the irrational, capacity for personal love, feeling for nature, and -- last but not least -- his relation to the unconscious. It is no mere chance that in olden times priestesses (like the Greek Sibyl) were used to fathom the divine will and to make connection with the gods."

The Sibyl

If you will read the description of the Sibyl in Robert Graves' masterpiece I, Claudius, you may see how a man relates to his inner world before the mediating light of the anima. In the macrocosm, the Sibyl played an anima role for Roman civilization. She is the perfect compliment to the ultra-rational Roman! I believe that Graves was going through a dark experience with a woman at the time the wrote the book as well.

Anima: [femme fatale according to Bill Taggart] "... at the same time, she is the great illusionist, the seductress, who draws [a man] into life with her, Maya -- and not only into life's reasonable and useful aspects, but into its frightful paradoxes and ambivalences where good and evil, success and ruin, hope and despair, counterbalance one another. Because she is his greatest danger she demands from a man his greatest, and if he has it in him she will receive it. [emphasis mine]

Anima: [according to Paul Watsky] "Anima functioning demands that a man's ego participate in a value-imbued relationship with his mind." [emphasis mine]

Anima: [according to John Beebe at Watsky] "I find it helpful to think of the anima as the emotional attitude a man takes towards anything he reflects upon...." [emphasis mine]

Anima: [according to Ann Belford Ulanov on Watsky] "Anima ... forms a bridge, across which the contents of the Self come to address the ego.

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.... They are powers in the unconscious, in fact, gods....

THE MOTHER, THE FIRST ANIMA FIGURE, PROTECTS THE MAN FROM HIS INNER DARKNESS

In Jung's own words: "Just as the father acts as a protection against the dangers of the external world and thus serves his son as a model persona, so the mother protects him against the dangers that threaten from the darkness of his psyche. In the puberty rites [of wiser "primitive" societies], therefore, the initiate receives instruction about these things of 'the other side,' so that he is put in a position to dispense with his mother's protection."

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