Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period Preface to Volumes V and VI IN THE FIRST THREE volumes of this series we reviewed the data of Jewish art (except for the Old Testament paintings of Dura) and saw that they presented a new problem. Jews had borrowed a vocabulary of pagan symbols which they mingled with…
In the dreams of a woman, the Self, when it personifies itself, manifests as a superior female figure, for example, as a priestess, a sorceress, an earth mother, or a nature or love goddess. The Self When a person has inwardly struggled with his anima or with her animus for a sufficiently long time and…
One stares at a chaotic pattern and then gets a fantasy, and the complete disorder in the pattern confuses one’s conscious mind. The unconscious knows things; it knows the past and future, it knows things about other people. We all from time to time have dreams which inform us about something which happens to another…
The Anima as the Woman within the Man The “ultimate” questions referred to above do not always come up in the encounter with the shadow. Much more often behind him or her another inner figure emerges as a personification of the unconscious. This takes the form of a woman in a man, and in a…
The Animus, a Woman’s Inner Man The embodiment of the unconscious of a woman as a figure of the opposite sex, the animus, also has positive and negative features. The animus, however, does not express itself so often in women as an erotic fantasy or mood, but rather as “sacred” convictions. When these latter are…