The Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung
Marion Woodman, To Be a Woman: The Birth of the Conscious Feminine CONSCIOUS FEMININITY: MOTHER, VIRGIN, CRONE by MARION WOODMAN In this eloquent and multidimensional essay, TorontoJungian analyst Marion Woodman portrays the tripleform ofthe conscious or “mature” Feminine: Mother, Virgin, Crone. This trinity exists simultaneously and continuously in all conscious women, each taking center stage … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
The nature of woman is more closely related to the irrational, and this makes a woman better able to open to new inspirations from the unconscious. Many myths and fairy tales tell of a prince, who has been turned into an animal or a monster by sorcery, being saved by a woman. This is a … Read more