Jungian Analyst Marie Louise von Franz on feminism and the animus in an 1977 interview.
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Few people have had as much influence on modern psychology as Carl Jung; he has coined terms such as extraversion and introversion, archetypes, anima and animus, shadow, and collective unconscious, among others.
Barbara Hannah was a straightforward, modest-yet-grand woman, a lover of literature, and a colleague and friend of C. G. Jung, Emma Jung, and Marie-Louise von Franz.
Barbara Hannah was a straightforward, modest, yet a grand woman, a lover of literature, and a colleague and friend of C. G. Jung, Emma Jung, and Marie-Louise von Franz.
We need to integrate our unconscious contrasexual nature, or we haven't become all we can be.
We are all a divine amalgamation of water and fire, soul and spirit, yin and yang. Ultimately, when we narrow everything down within us, we see that we contain two energies: that of the feminine and masculine.
“The animus is the deposit, as it were, of all woman’s ancestral experiences of man—and not only that, he is also a creative and procreative being.”—C.G. Jung Inextricably enmeshed in the life of every woman is a constellation of autonomous energy that Jung called animus, her masculine side.
An examination of the feminine and masculine qualities in every person.
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Jungian analysis of fairy tales highlighting the unconscious feminine and masculine.
Exploring the realm of Carl Jung's collective unconscious and the archetypes that live within it.
Aion, originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung’s later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ.