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Anima, in Jungian psychology:
1. The unconscious or true inner self of an individual, as opposed to the persona, or outer aspect of the personality.
2. The feminine inner personality, as present in the unconscious of the male. It is in contrast to the animus, which represents masculine characteristics. It can be identified as all the unconscious feminine psychological qualities that a male possesses. In a film interview, Jung was not clear if the anima/animus archetype was totally unconscious, calling it "a little bit conscious" and unconscious. In the interview, he gave an example of a man who falls head over heels in love, then later in life regrets his blind choice as he finds that he has married his own anima–the unconscious idea of the feminine in his mind, rather than the woman herself. The anima is usually an aggregate of a man's mother but may also incorporate aspects of sisters, aunts, and teachers.
The anima is one of the most significant autonomous complexes of all. It manifests itself by appearing as figures in dreams as well as by influencing a man's interactions with women and his attitudes toward them. Jung said that confronting one's shadow is an "apprentice-piece", while confronting one's anima is the masterpiece. Jung viewed the anima process as being one of the sources of creative ability. In psychology a complex is generally an important group of unconscious associations, or a strong unconscious impulse lying behind an individuals otherwise mysterious condition: the detail varies widely from theory to theory. ...
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Originally, the term masterpiece (or chef dœuvre) referred to a piece of handcrafted art produced by a journeyman aspiring to become a master craftsman in the old European guild system, which is partially retained today only in Germany. ...
In Italian and Spanish, anima is most closely translated as "soul", while in Latin , animus and anima may both be translated as "soul" or "mind", depending on context. Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
Levels of development Jung believed Anima development has four distinct levels. The first is Eve, named for the Christian allegory of Adam and Eve. It deals with the emergance of a male's object of desire, but yet also strongly scapegoats females as evil and powerless. The second is Helen, as the Greek reference to Helen of Troy. In this phase, women are seen to be capable worldy success and self-supporting qualities, to have intelligence and insight, yet still are seen to be incapable of virtue. This second phase is meant to show a strong schism in external talents (cultivated business and conventional skills) with lacking internal qualities (inability for virtue, lacking faith or imagination). The third phase is Mary, named for the Christian theological understanding of the Virgin Mary (Jesus's mother). At this level, females can now seem to possess virtue by the perceiving male, however so much so (or perhaps in so exoteric and dogmaic a way) that certain activities deemed consciously unvirtuous cannot be applied to her. From Ken Wilber terminology, this third phase seems to represent Up spirituality while the second phase represents Down spirituality. This fourth and final phase of Anima development is Sophia, as previously mentioned for the greek word for wisdom. Proper union and harmony now has taken place which allows females to posses combinations of virtuous and earthly qualities. Most important of this final level is that, as the disembodied name Wisdom suggests, the Anima is now developed enough that no single object can fully and permanently contain the imagos related to the Anima. As this point as well, this now esoterically understood feminine principle can be possessed by any person, male or female, and yet is not necessarily possessed by any. In broad terms, the entire process of Anima development in a male is about having the male subject open up to emotionality and in that way a broader spirituality by creating a new conscious paradigm that includes intuitive processes, creativity and imagination, and psychic sensitivity towards himself and others.
The female "animus" Though less written about, Jung also believed that every woman has an analogous animus within her psyche, this being a set of unconscious masculine attributes and potentials. He viewed the animus as being more complex than the anima, as women have a host of animus images while the male anima consists only of one dominant image. The neutrality of this article is disputed. ...
The word masculine can refer to: the property of being biologically male masculinity, a traditionally male gender role the masculine grammatical gender This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Jung states there are four parallel levels of Animus development in a female. The four roles are not identical with genders reversed; the process of Animus development deals with cultivating an independent and non-socially subjagated idea of self by embodying a deeper Word (as per a specific existential outlook) and manifesting this word. To clarify, This does not mean to female subject becomes more set in her ways (as this Word is steeped in emotionality, subjectivity, and a dynamicism just as a well developed Anima is) but is more internally aware of what she believes and feels and more capable of experessing what she believes and feels.
Both final stages of Animus and Anima development have dynamic qualities (being ever in motion, flux, that this development involves a continual process), open ended qualities (that there is no static perfected ideal or manifestation of the quality in question), and pluralistic qualties (in transcending the need for set image, any subject or object can contain many archetypes or seemingly antithetical roles).
Cultural references - Anima is the main focus for Rush's song "Animate" on their album Counterparts
- Anima Animus is the name of an album by The Creatures
- The Joni Mitchell song "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow" alters Jung's theory by making the anima part of a woman's psyche, representing her own buried strength rising up in the form of a "vengeful little goddess" to rebel against male dominance.
- A creature (known as an Aeon) called Anima appears in the Playstation2 videogame Final Fantasy X. It is the hideously transformed spirit of the main antagonist's (Seymour Guado) mother. Because she wanted her son to be accepted and because she was already about to die, she gives herself up and becomes this aeon.
- Anima, particularly as a source of creativity, is a primary theme of Federico Fellini's 1963 film, 8 1/2. In one of the film's many flashback/dream sequences, the word "Anima" is used as a part of some children's language game and becomes "Asa-Nisi-Masa."
- The TV series Herman's Head included a Greek chorus consisting of the various parts of a man's divided psyche, including a woman named Angel to represent his feminine side.
- The theory of the animus and anima formed the seed of Michael Tippett's opera The Midsummer Marriage.
- The band Tool notes Jungian psychology on many different levels. Tool has released an album entitled, Ænima which is in reference to Jungs theory. That only women have it. Also, MJK has reffered to Jungian philosophy during various live shows.dvdsf sfdsdffsd.
Rush is a Canadian progressive rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ...
Counterparts is the fifteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). ...
The Creatures began as a side-project band comprising Siouxsie Sioux (vocals) and her husband Budgie (real name Peter Clarke) (drums and percussion), formerly of Siouxsie & the Banshees. ...
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician and painter. ...
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Final Fantasy X ) is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix. ...
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Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered Italian film-makers of the 20th century and is considered to be one of the finest film directors of all time. ...
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Hermans fractured psyche Hermans Head was a TV series on the FOX network that aired from 1991 to 1994. ...
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was one of the foremost English composers of the 20th century. ...
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Ænima is the second full-length studio album by the band Tool. ...
See also Analytical psychology is part of the Jungian psychology movement started by Carl Jung and his followers. ...
Jungian psychology is a theory developed by Carl Gustav Jung, and is central to the Neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. ...
Robert A. Johnsons He: Understanding Masculine Psychology Masculine Psychology is a term sometimes used to describe and categorize issues concerning the gender related psychology of male human identity, as well as the issues that males confront during their lives. ...
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