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The anima and animus are a pair of dualistic, Jungian archetypes which form a syzygy, or union of opposing forces. Carl Jung described the animus as the unconscious masculine side of a woman, and the anima as the unconscious feminine side of a man, each transcending the personal psyche. [1]
Inner figures such as shadow, anima and animus would be archetypal processes having source in the right hemisphere. [ 5 ] Henry (1977) alluded to Maclean's model of the tripartite brain suggesting that the reptilian brain is an older part of the brain and may contain not only drives but archetypal structures as well.
The anima loci or animus loci is the "soul" of a place, its essential personality. A concept linked to the supernatural spirits of nature as residing in stones, springs, mountains, islands, trees, etc. [ 1 ]
The Anima Mundi also finds relevance in modern spiritual and New Age movements, where it is often associated with the idea of a living, conscious Earth. Practices such as Earth-centered spirituality, animism , and certain strands of neopaganism embrace the notion of the World Soul as a guiding principle for living in harmony with nature.
Syzygy, a term used by Carl Jung to mean a union of opposites, e.g. anima and animus Syzygy, female–male pairings of the emanations known as Aeon (Gnosticism) Literature
Regarding the animus and anima, the male principle within the woman and the female principle within the man, Jung writes: They evidently live and function in the deeper layers of the unconscious, especially in that phylogenetic substratum which I have called the collective unconscious.
Most of these titles are a translation of the original German title. A few titles were originally published in English. Alchemical Active ImaginationISBN 0-87773-589-1; Alchemy: An Introduction To The Symbolism And The Psychology ISBN 0-919123-04-X; Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales ISBN 1-894574-01-X; Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche ISBN 1 ...
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