Animus Quotes

“Individuals blind to the sexual opposite within them, be they men or women, never realise that the partner they choose is chosen because he or she bears some resemblance to the anima or animus. The anger and hurt felt at the 'true discovery' of the partner's failings is really anger and hurt directed at oneself; and this would become apparent, were one to see the dark figure within one's own unconscious impelling one into a particular relationship. Like always attracts like; rather than railing at the partner, one should take a long, close look at one's own psychic makeup. But it is easier to complain bitterly --- to analysts, marriage counsellors, and also astrologers --- that yet another relationship has collapsed and yet another partner has proved to be a bad choice. It is also fashionable to blame this on the failures of the parent of the opposite sex; but the past continues to live within a person not only because in some way it is part of his own substance, but also because he permits it to do so.
When a disastrous relationship occurs once, we may fool ourselves into believing it is chance; when it occurs twice, it has become a pattern, and a pattern is an unmistakable indication that the anima or animus is at work in the unconscious, propelling the helpless ego into relationships or situations which are baffling, painful, and frighteningly repetitive. Again, it is much wiser to look within oneself for the source of the pattern, rather than at the inherent failure of the opposite sex. For these destructive patterns are the psyche's way of making itself known, although great effort is often required to fulfil its demand for transformation. And great sacrifices also are required - of such precious commodities as one's pride, one's self-image, one's self-righteousness.”
― Liz Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living With Others on a Small Planet

“The shadow can be realized only through a relation to a partner, and anima and animus only through a relation to a partner of the opposite sex, because only in such a relation do their projections become operative.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“It is an animus, she decides, the representation of the Logos in the female, as the anima is the representation of Eros in the male. In its negative aspect it is opinionated, conventional, banal, self-righteous, argumentative . . . In its positive aspect, it conveys spirit, feistiness, the capacity for reflection and self-knowledge, the capacity to handle philosophical and religious ideas at the higher levels.”
― Michael Gruber, The Good Son

“Jungians have found that in every man there is a feminine sub-personality called the Anima, made up of the feminine archetypes. And in every woman there is a masculine sub-personality called the Animus, made up of the masculine archetypes.”
― Robert L. Moore, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

“The man with the persona is blind to the existence of inner realities, just as the other [man without a persona] is blind to the reality of the world, which for him has merely the value of an amusing or fantastic playground.”
― C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

“The animus awakens passion in a woman. His plans, purposes and whims stir up self-doubt within her and caused her to drag her feminine, passive nature out into the world and to expose herself to the resistance of the outer world. Then, when a woman has been successful in a man's world, it means acute suffering to narrow down the scope of her activities, or to give them up altogether, in order to become more feminine again.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“Tanto para o masculino como para o feminino, a totalidade só é atingível quando, numa união dos opostos, o dia e a noite, o mais alto e o mais baixo, as consciências patriarcal e matriarcal, chegam ao seu próprio modo de produtividade e mutuamente se complementam, fertilizando um ao outro.”
― Erich Neumann, Fathers and Mothers

“This lowly activity is also a kind of compensation to persuade the woman to become feminine again. The effect of animus pressure can lead a woman to deeper femininity, providing she accepts the fact that she is animus-possessed and does something to bring her animus into reality. If she gives him a field of action- that is, if she takes up some special study or does some masculine work- this can occupy the animus, and at the same time her feeling will be vivified and she will come back to feminine activities. The worst condition comes about when a woman has a powerful animus, and does not even live it; then she is straightjacketed by animus opinions, and while she may avoid any sort of work that seems in the least masculine, she is much less feminine.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“In the clutches of the animus, no woman is able to give up whatever power she may have, or her conviction that it is right and necessary and valuable. The convictions a woman has lived by spring from inferior masculine thinking; the less she herself is able to evaluate them, the more passionately she clings to them. This is a reason for the persistence of the animus possession. Unfortunately such a woman never thinks that anything could be wrong with herself and is convinced that the fault lies with others.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“A comum identificação de nosso ego com a consciência patriarcal cerebral, e a correspondente falta de relação com a consciência matriarcal, freqüentemente conduz ao nosso desconhecimento do que realmente nos acontece. Em tais casos, percebemos mais tarde que fomos profundamente impressionados por coisas, situações e pessoas, das quais nosso ego cerebral não tomou qualquer conhecimento. Então, ao contrário, uma falta de reação, convenientemente embaçada aparece em alguém, mas cuja consciência do coração “concebeu “. O fato de que, como um raio, algo ocorreu e foi percebido, tornar-se-á visível mais tarde na frutificação de uma mudança de personalidade. Aqui, a frase de Heráclito continua válida: “A natureza adora se esconder”.”
― Erich Neumann, The Fear of the Feminine and Other Essays on Feminine Psychology

“V nevědomí ženy lze tedy očekávat podstatně jiné aspekty, než jaké nacházíme u muže. Mám-li nyní říci jedním slovem, kde jev tomto ohledu rozdíl mezi mužem a ženou, čím je animus charakteristický oproti anime, mohu říci jen: jako anima vyvolává nálady, tak animus vyvolává mínění, a tak jako nálady u muže vystupují z temného pozadí, tak mínění u ženy spočívá na stejně nevědomých, apriorních předpokladech.”
― C.G. Jung, Osobnost a přenos

“Just imagine that you have a soulmate, destined numerically to pair with you! You just have to find the person who has your number. Who is the 284 to your 220?”
― Thomas Stark, What Is Mathematics?: The Greatest Detective Story Never Told

“Is it possible my lover is not the man I thought him to be? Does he see me at all?
Am I projecting my own inner man onto him? Am I forcing him to take responsibility for my undeveloped talents? Am I treating my body as my mother treated hers? Am I thinking like my father? Where am I blindly reacting as they did? Where am I still reacting childishly? Is my anger coming from my gut or from my head? Is it feminine anger or animus anger?
(Feminine anger cleanses; animus anger leaves me tense.)
Guided by the response of the unconscious as revealed in dreams, we differentiate grain from grain, question after question, until one day we find our own authentic voice. ~Marion Woodman,The Pregnant Virgin, Page”
― Marion Woodman, The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation

“I fell into a rhythm, and his animus melted with the pleasure I granted. He ceased his threat and became a man enjoying having his cock sucked by someone who knew what she was doing.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex