Animus

According to Carl Jung, the animus is the masculine side of a woman's personal unconscious. It can be identified as all the unconscious masculine psychological qualities that a woman possesses.

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Jung also believed that every man has an analogous anima within his psyche, this being a set of unconscious feminine attributes and potentials.

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Carl Jung: Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland?June 6, 1961, K?snacht) (IPA:) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology. His approach to human psychology emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the world of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosoph...

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Woman: A woman is an adult female human being, as contrasted with a man, an adult male, and a girl, a female child. The term woman (irregular plural: women) is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions, or both....