All right, gentlemen, welcome back to the man talk show.

Connor Beaton here.

And today I'm going to be doing an introduction to the anima, which is a Jungian archetype

that shows up in a lot of his work.

And the anima in a basic version is the archetype of the universal

feminine. Now there's many different ways that I could go about this. I could probably do a few

hours worth of a workshop on the anima. It's a very complex subject that Jung talks about

endlessly and throughout a lot of his work. But for the sake of today,

I'm going to just introduce the concept. I'm going to give you a couple key factors that I see

sort of plaguing a lot of men. And then I'm going to bring it into your relationships. Because in

my book, I put a line that I think summarizes a man's relationship to the anima.

And the book, by the way, is called Men's Work.

But in the book, I wrote a line that said, how you treat women is how you treat your own unconscious.

How you treat women is how you treat the feminine within yourself.

And so rate out the gates, what I want you to know is that the easiest way to

begin to understand your own anima, your own relationship with the feminine, because every

human being has a relationship to the masculine and to the feminine. We're going to going through

a time right now where many people's relationship to the

masculine is that of animosity and hostility. But we'll leave that for maybe another video about

the animus. But everybody has a relationship to the anima and the animus. And you can see this

throughout basic philosophies and religions throughout the course of human history.

Things like alchemy have talked about the principles of duality, the principles of gender that masculine and feminine exist.

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