Originating in the idea that Anima/Animus archetype is a counterpart of gender identity, these images are traditionally considered as feminine for men and masculine for women (in Latin, Anima is the …

With modern culture being far more accepting and open to various gender and sexual expressions, the classic idea that men have an Anima and women have an Animus has become outdated.

14 Aristotle: De Anima to the musical notation; it encodes the form, or bears the “information” that enables bodily material to become “in-formed” and active in a particular way.

The anima represents the feminine aspect in men, and comes from the individual man’s experience with women as companion, and man’s own minority of female genes.

"Anima" literally means "soul," and the definition of Jung's term that suits me best emphasizes the psychological functions of relatedness and mediation, especially between the ego and the …

Anima names the feminine unconscious factor in a inner figures upon one another, making disillu-man, while animus applies to the corresponding sionment inevitable when they discover that their …

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