A thinking type will analyse the performance, fuel consumption, motor plan deal etc. To explain this, I will use the example of wanting to buy a new car. An individual will always favour one of the four as their superior function. These four functions identify the way you relate to, and take in information from the external world. In Jung’s personality type model, each person has four functions, namely Thinking, Feeling, Intuition and Sensation. The Anima attacks the man’s inferior function, and to explain this I need to quickly divert to Typology. At night he dreams about his Anima, she appears in his dreams as a monster, attacking him, threatening him and dismissing him. He gets lost in contemplations and thinking and this is what prevents him from taking action. He repeats the same dynamics, dates the same type of women, and experiences the same resistance in the world again and again.Īny numinous experiences he has, she quickly attacks and he is left with a feeling that he experience was “nothing but”… She is a master of creating doubt and he finds himself always doubting his options and choices. The Anima spins a cocoon of fantasies and illusions. The Anima possessed man is stuck in a fate that his repetitive patterns choose for him. He is usually in a relationship with an Animus hound who knows it all and makes all the decisions in the relationship. He is not appropriate in his actions, either he is paralysed and can’t find the energy to do what needs to be done, or he jumps into action when he should be thinking about it first. Although very passive, he totally overreacts to slights and confrontations. He is moody and sulky and throws tantrums like a toddler. The Anima possessed man is a spineless wimp who does not know when or how to take action in the world. When a man’s Anima is not integrated, it wreaks havoc in his life. After that follows the integration of the Anima and/or Animus. In Jungian psychology, the first step is to individuation is integrating your shadow. A man’s experience of his personal mother puts the flesh on the inborn archetype of the Anima and both define his attitude towards women and the functioning of his inner feminine principal. The information and knowledge that Marie Louise von Franz extracts from the Fairy Tales is fascinating.Īs this post focus on the man’s relationship with his Anima, what needs to be understood is that this feminine image is unconscious, and has her roots in the relationship he had with his mother. Whilst Post Jungian theory is in line with Post Modernity and more ambivalent about gender, the classical model, as described by Marie-Louise von Franz in this post, is still incredibly useful and very interesting. In other words, if you are physically a man, you will have an inner Anima, a feminine image which guides and shapes the way you relate to women and the world at large. In the classic version of Jungian psychology, the Anima is the man’s internal other, and the Animus is the woman’s internal other. This post focuses on the malevolent, destructive, dysfunctional Anima and how that affects a man and also attempts to address the approach to take in order to integrate the Anima and thus render her benevolent and constructive. This is the second part of two posts on the Classic version of Jung’s Anima and Animus theory in which I condense the information from Marie-Louise von Franz’s book Anima and Animus in Fairy Tales.
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