“Both men and women seek to better understand themselves in a way that has not been seen before,” begins his book on inner masculinity and femininity, American Jungian analyst and pastor John A. Sanford.
“Both men and women seek to better understand themselves in a way that has not been seen before,” begins his book on inner masculinity and femininity, American Jungian analyst and pastor John A. Sanford. Jung and his followers call the male part of the female soul the Animus and the female part of the male soul the Anima. Animus and Anima are our invisible partners who influence many aspects of our lives, and above all, emotional and sexual relationships with the opposite sex. Analyzing first the negative and then the positive impact of these archetypal figures, the author draws on fragments from the works of Jung and the Jungians, literary plots, life stories. To find inner unity, writes Sanford, men usually need women, and women need men. However, our mutual projections very often confuse the real relationship of the two. Meanwhile, «we are not a prince or a princess who seek to reunite with a person who plays for us the role of our mystical partner.» Rather, this couple is «within us, making a great marriage in the unconscious.»
Class, 160 p.