Animus & Anima

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Although these Jungian concepts have become familiar psychological terminology, they remain difficult to understand. According to Jung, animus and anima are innate psychic structures shaped significantly by the archetypal world, whereas the shadow is predominantly shaped by personal experiences of ego formation. Whereas shadow tends to be rejected, animus and anima fascinate and attract. Although images like sol / luna or yin / yang amplify the a priori nature of these inner opposites, the animus corresponds to the paternal Logos and the anima to the maternal Eros. Parents are the first external experience of this innate predisposition, and a developmental psychic trajectory may be inferred from mythology and individual dream images. Animus and anima represent adaptation and attitude to the inner world; they serve as the bridge to the collective unconscious and are experienced as “other.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano,
0:07.0	Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation
0:12.0	that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:17.0	I'm Lisa Marchiano and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:22.6	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:27.5	I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod.
0:37.3	Welcome to another episode of this Jungian life.
0:42.8	I wanted to do one quick housekeeping thing before we launch into this week's topic, which is sometimes we're receiving dreams via email or people will write in and say, you know, how can I submit a dream?
0:58.8	And we do mention this at the end of the podcast, but I think it is helpful to mention it sometimes at the beginning as well.
1:05.3	If you go to our website, which is thisyungianlife.com, you will see right there on the home page a little box to
1:14.7	click. It says, I think it says, let us interpret your dream. And if you click on that, then there's a
1:21.3	button you can click that will take you to our dream submission form. So anyone can submit a dream.
1:27.7	We love getting your dreams.
1:29.7	And you can do it right from our website.
1:32.0	That's the easiest way.
1:33.8	Okay.
1:34.5	For this week, we decided to tackle a topic that many people have requested,
1:40.1	which is this Jungian concept of anima and animus. And I suggested to Deb and Joseph that we do this
1:49.0	and we immediately got into a hearty argument about it because it's a fairly, it is actually
1:57.7	sort of a controversial notion among Jungian. Some Jungians, you know, really like it and
2:04.0	sort of use it in the classical sense that Young used it. And, you know, it's a little bit of a
2:10.0	challenge to kind of square with these ideas and have they kind of outrun their usefulness? Do they
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