Are these have a determining effect or is it possible to ignore them?
What is anima and animus living within?
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- 3+ months ago by Alfred1970
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- psychology
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They are within us all, they determine lots of things about us. They are the yin and yang of our masculine and feminine unconscious mind.
In the unconscious of the male, this archetype finds expression as a feminine inner personality the "anima", the equivalent in the unconscious of the female is expressed as a masculine inner personality or "animus".
They define us and how we interact (especially with the opposite sex), Jung believed that by balancing the two properly it would set people free of a lot of the complexes that we humans suffer with.