You ask the black dog into your room and talk to him
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on.
There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.”
If you think the anima as being “nothing but” what you know about her, you have not the receptiveness of a listening attitude, and so she becomes “nothing but” a load of brutal emotions; you have never given her a chance of expressing herself, and therefore she has become inhuman and brutal.
This is why Dr. Jung introduced active imagination, as a means of talking to the complex: you ask the black dog into your room and talk to him, listening carefully to what he says.
You will see then that the overload disappears and is replaced by a relatively human being with whom you can talk and you find out that it is the wizard. The human being has hitherto rejected the anima and the wizard has taken it out on her.
It is like killing the wife or the child to hurt the other person.
You can say in such a case that the ego has somewhere blocked one complex by another; then one is bewitched as an act of vengeance.
If it is a pagan Weltanschauung which is behind the anima, the man would have to ask and ascertain his own stand point: “Why do such ideas exist in my soul?”
The influence on his anima will then stop and he will see that she is harmless in herself. ― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairy Tales, Page 43-44
