anima
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- noun
- /ˈænɪmə/
- Specialized
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anima
- Because of insufficient self-knowledge, a man's anima (or a woman's animus) can be contaminated by the shadow.
- anima and animus
- man's anima
- anima or woman
And speaking as a man, you know, anima figures are those kind of women that inhabit your dreams.
- And speaking as a man, you know, anima figures are those kind of women that inhabit your dreams.
- Heaven and earth, male and female, up and down Anima Animus girls High School.
- There's also another thing that he brings up the anima.
Examples
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Illimar went on to talk a lot about women and about anima as the archetypal feminine component of the male psyche.
Fiction book (1993) -
The anima is man's unconscious image of woman; the animus is woman's unconscious image of man.
Academic text (1998) -
I am helping her now because she has brought me into the anima, at least in spirit.
Fiction book (1992) -
And speaking as a man, you know, anima figures are those kind of women that inhabit your dreams.
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For some men, the anima is determined too exclusively by their own mothers.
Academic text (1993) -
You made an important distinction between Anima and persona.
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The Sound of Music is the complete story of the spiritual development of the anima-based personality.
Blog text (11) -
Through Lucie, he is inspired to recover his feminine, feeling self, his anima, and to encounter the sacred.
Academic text (1994) -
The anima represents a man's unconscious image of women and shapes his dreams and relationships.
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In Jungian psychology, the anima is a crucial element in understanding a man's internal conflicts and emotional depth.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anima comes from Latin anima, which means 'breath' or 'soul'. So the anima is like the 'inner breath' or inner life inside a person, which is why Jung used anima for the unconscious, feminine side that lives within a man.