When the anima is recognized and integrated a change of attitude occurs toward the feminine generally.
When the anima is recognized and integrated a change of attitude occurs toward the feminine generally.
The animus and anima are function complexes behaving in ways compensatory to the outer personality, that is, behaving as if they were inner personalities and exhibiting the characteristics which are lacking in the outer, and manifest, conscious personality.
In a man, these are feminine characteristics, in a woman, masculine. Normally both are always present, to a certain degree, but find no place in the person’s outwardly directed functioning because they disturb his outer adaptation, his established ideal image of himself.
However, the character of these figures are not only determined by the latent sexual characteristics they represent; it is conditioned by the experience each person has had in the course of his or her life with representatives of the other sex, and also by the collective image of woman carried in the psyche of the individual man, and the collective image of man carried by the woman. — Emma Jung, Animus and Anima, Page 1
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