so who wants to help me understand anima and animus?

I've been doing reaserch and for some reason i can't fully understand what anima and animus are. from what I've been able to concieve, it seems very interesting, but I can't really tell what exactly they are. so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

From what I've learned (I may be wrong), they are the male and female expressions of the soul, or rather the male and female portion of every person that composes their being/consciousness. I don't know if they're separated along the lines of "rational/emotional", like several understand the main separation of man and woman to be (mentally at least); if they are separated in such a way, it would be logical to say that portraying great emotion would be an expression of your animus (female), or something along those lines. I don't know, though; if you look into the bulk of Carl Jung's ideas, it'll become clearer to you, I think.

The wiki definitely would cover it better and more accurately than I can:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_(Jung)

 

the wikipedia article makes more sense now. I don't have the biggest vocabulary out there, so when they start using all those big words, it really confuses me. hahaha. I wish they'd just break it down in laymens terms so I wouldn't have to constantly look up words.

but it the anima seems to be the a collection of different female figures that have made an impact in his life. His anima also influences his view of women and his interaction of women.

what I've really been interested in is the "anima process". it is suppose to be one of the sources of creative ability. do you have any information on this "anima process"?

 

I think it has to do with Jung's idea of the "collective unconscious"; if you don't know about it, it's basically the reservoir of all human soul and concepts. In this idea, if you have a personality, it isn't necessarily your own, but is taken from this unconscious pool. Creativity is a result of drawing from the collective unconscious, as it is the internal source off all human creativity.

(this is all from my pysch teacher, but he's been wrong before about less complex things, so don't just take my word on it)

 

I will research more of his idea's. Jung seems like an interesting guy to research.

A teacher at my school knows a lot about Jung and his work (to bad i don't have his class, hopefully next year). I was talking to him about it and he has a book he's gonna let me borrow when he finds it on Jung's work.

but thank you for the help. It you find out anything else, pm.

peace and love

 

Good luck man, it's some awesome philosophy, I wish I could remember it more properly or explain it better, but the book is sure to do just that whenever you get it

 

thanks. do you have any similar philosophy I might be interested in reading?

 

Not very close; I think it's important, though, to take a look at Janism, Taoism and Pluralism when you find yourself bored, they all have pretty cool concepts behind them. Jung is really in an area of his own, but I think he's considered a part of "abnormal psychology", so maybe looking into more of that would be a good idea.

 

cool man, thanks a lot!!!

 

anima and animus are really very simple. whatever your physical gender, you're subconscience has an opposite gendered component to it, who you'd be if you'd been born with the opposite gender of what you were. in many ways this is your ideal perfect soulmate, that you will never find an exact match for in real life.

although that all depends though, on how well you get along with yourself, how at peace you are with what/how you see yourself as being.

maybe for people who arn't at peace with themsleves, there other gendered self might not be their perfect mate. but anyway, that's really all it comes down to.

freud made a big deal about sex and frustration and gratification of it, but as maslow was finally able to get the pshrinqilogical community to admit, for not all people is that the end all and be all of their emotional existence. i mean gratification and frustration can actually be about many different things even more specific to their own individual natures, then any one thing like that. freud's sex/personal love thing, was a one size fits all perspective, that like most one size fits all anything, usually isn't and doesn't.

but there's no reason we can't all make and be at peace with our opposite gendered subconscous components.

at it DOESN'T have to be expressed outwordly as same gender partner preference in order to do so either.

when it is, meh, to each their own. not THAT big of a deal.

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