The Animus and The Anima
Power of the CROSS
Warning: With more knowledge there is more power and
inadvertently more risk. My hope is that the information shared will be used
first, foremost and only for one to understand and develop the self. The use
for blame and undue profit will ultimately fail!
We know that the construct we inhabit is devised into Reality
and the Imaginary, all that exists is here. We concluded in my other post to
call it The Conscious and The Unconscious. Both exist, humanity has separate
fields and has been studying them for a long time. One would be covered by
science and the other by spirituality. Jung’s theory of the psyche is in the
forefront of the second.
Jung found that the basic element (the person) has a duality
at the center of it. He called them The Animus and The Anima. Defining these
features and the interaction between them reveals the very nature of life.
Duality is at the center. Mostly this is understood as the union of the
opposites, but this is not the case. Functionally they are complementary.
Rather than going into long descriptions of abstract concepts this will be
better understood if we complete a functional analysis of the roles they play. The common understanding of the role and some
help from the age old (approved) symbolism will be sufficient to get the idea.
The Animus a Latin word originally used to describe life,
mind, mental powers, courage and desire, Jung used it to define the masculine
part in all people. Traditionally the
action is here, hunting, gathering, fighting, working, building and turning
matter into things. Sometimes is described as the primary function, not based
on importance but order. This function will happen first; this is the start,
the trigger. The action of beginning something, this is “Initiation”. This is
easy to grasp as it happens in The Conscious part of the construct. What
happens with the result or fruit of the “Initiation”? On my previous post we
determined The Unconscious at the very least as a placeholder were we place and
retrieve information. By virtue of existing the result of initiation exists now
on The Unconscious.
The Anima a Latin word originally used to describe breath,
soul, spirit or vital force, Jung used it to describe the feminine part in all
people. Traditionally this role is passive described as gentleness, empathy,
sensitivity, caring, sweetness, compassion, tolerance, nurturance and caring.
The action in here is that of receiving, accepting, examining or concluding of
something, a secondary role in order to that that now exists. Symbolically the
Anima is represented by the Moon, only the light captured by the Moon will be
reflected back and exist to be seen. Similarly the “Initiation” will get a
feedback from The Unconscious on the validity of the existence. The action of
validating the state of being, this is “Verification”. Both parts are needed
for anything to exist.
All that exists in the Conscious must have valid verification
in the Unconscious. Seems like experience
and recent studies correlate with this model with many practical applications.
With this model we can define:
Self – as the verified part of the Person in the Unconscious
Ego – as the part seeking to maximize all that could be
verified
More to come on the next post, other variables that need to
be considered.
