Animated

The animated , for Carl Gustav Jung, is the woman in the man.

Animated often appears in the dreams and the phantasms under the features of a tempting and/or diabolic woman who is carrying female values often very far away from the male values conscious of the dreamer. It is during the process of Individuation, often in second half of the life, that the man is confronted with this figure of sound Inconscient.

“Animated It is female; it is only one formation of psyché male and it is a figure which compensates for the conscious masculine. At the woman, contrary, the shim element revêt a male character, and this is why I called it the animus. If, already, to describe what it is necessary to understand by animated does not constitute an easy task precisely, it is certain that the difficulties increase when it is a question of describing the psychology of the animus.

The fact that a man naively allots to his Me the reactions of sound animated, without same being effleuré by the idea that it is impossible for whoever validly to be identified with an autonomous complex, this fact which is a misunderstanding is still found in female psychology in a measurement, if to make may be, larger. ”

“To describe in short what makes the difference between the man and the woman from this point of view, therefore what characterizes the animus opposite animated, let us say: whereas animated it is the source of moods and whims, the animus, is to him the source of opinions; and just as the sudden changes of mood of the man proceed of obscure backgrounds, the sour and masterly opinions of the woman rest as much on unconscious prejudices and a priori. ”

C.G. Jung " Dialectical of ego and unconscious the " , Ideas/Gallimard, 1973 p 179 and 181.

The woman presents in each man

“With the Middle Ages, well before the physiologists showed that our glandular structure confers on each one of us elements at the same time male and female, a saying wanted that " each man carries in him a femme". And it is this female element in each man that I called animated it. This female aspect is primarily a certain way, lower, than with the man to refer to his entourage, than it hides with the others very as much as with itself. Even when the visible personality of an individual appears normal, it may be that it dissimulates with the others and with itself this " woman whom it carries in lui" and whose state is sometimes deplorable. ” C.G. Jung " The man and his symbols " , Robert Laffont, 1964 p 31.

The female figures of the category Anima appear in general with the men. This is why it is named the female share of the man. Within the framework of the private clinic, or simply while following its dreams, day after day, over one long period, and while becoming aware of this female share, these characters whom it has in him, the real masculine of the man is put has to develop. This process names the Individuation.

The result of this realization is done in general, by the meeting with the figure of the wise woman towards the end of the process. Male characters (although raising in general of psyché female) appearing sometimes in the man during this process.

Constituting the , the female share Animated, of the man one can find:

1st level: primitive woman - for example Eve, Venus, but also sirens, or femmes fatale. etc
2nd level: woman of action - For example Jeanne d' Arc, Diane the huntress, amazones etc
3rd level: woman of sublimation - For example: virgin of the Christians, kali among Hindus, Isis, Demeter etc
4th level: wise woman - For example a god father, a guide.

Each level corresponds has a level of psycho-emotional maturity. " Animated fourth level, the highest stage corrsepond with a transcendent wisdom, under the image of athena, the sophia the sgnostiques ones, the initiator and the Muses. Female dimension enters in close relationship to dimension masculine." in the psychoanalysis jungienne, Essentialis Collection, ED. Bernet-Danilot, April 2002

How is it expressed T?

“How did it animate it is expressed in the spiritual life intimates of the man? It is what remains incomprehensible with the women. Animated expresses to some extent the desire. It represents certain desires, certain waitings. This is why one projects it on the person of a woman, to which see themselves allotted certain waitings, of unilateral waitings, a whole system of waitings. It is a form of animated. Animated, at the man, always arose with a system of relation. One can even speak about an erotic system of relation, whereas the animus at the woman does not represent absolutely that: it seems a intellectual problem, a system of comprehension. Animated represents a desire, waiting or a certain form of waiting. ” C.G. Jung " On the Interpretation of the dreams " , Albin Michel, 1998 p 149.

Presence of animated in the dreams

“The presence of a figure of animated in the dream made indeed always suppose the existence of a function of relation. Animated always represents at the man the function of relation. ”

C.G. Jung On the Interpretation of the dreams Albin Michel, 1998 p 224.

The separating Tendency of animated

“… it seems necessary and very indicated to seek the hidden reasons which can be at the origin of the separating tendency of animated. The first step of this research consists of what I wish to call the objectivation of animated, namely categorical prohibition to see in the tendency to separation the expression of a personal weakness of Ego. It is only when that is established that one can to some extent address to animated the question: " Why research you this separation? " To put the question about this personal mode has a large advantage: thus, indeed, the personality of animated is recognized and accepted and a relation between Ego and animated it becomes possible. More this relation is made close friend and personal, better that is worth.” C.G. Jung " Dialectical of ego and unconscious the " , Ideas/Gallimard, 1973 p 170.

Confrontation with animated

“The elements of the interior world influence us subjectively in a all the more powerful way as they are unconscious; also, for whoever is eager to achieve a progress in its own culture (and isn't at the isolated individual that the culture starts?), it is essential to objectify in him the effectiveness of animated, in order to try to discover which are the psychic contents at the origin of mysterious efficiencies of the heart. This way, the subject will acquerra adaptation and protection against the invisible powers which live in him. ”

C.G. Jung " Dialectical of ego and unconscious the " , Ideas/Gallimard, 1973 p 178.

The Dialog with animated

“It is necessary to raise this dialog with animated with the height of a technique. Each one, one knows it, with the characteristic and also the aptitude to be able to converse with itself. Each time a being is plunged in a distressing dilemma, he addresses himself, high or low, with itself the question (which of other could it thus question?) : " What do I have to make? " ; and it is even given (or which thus gives it to him apart from him?) the answer. ” “All the art of this intimate dialog consists in letting speak, to let reach the " verbalisation" the invisible partner, to temporarily place to some extent at its disposal the mechanisms of the expression, without us to let overpower by the dislike which one naturally feels with respect to oneself during this procedure which seems a play of an unbounded nonsense, and without succumbing either to the doubts which attack us in connection with the " authenticité" words of the interior interlocutor. ” C.G. Jung " Dialectical of ego and unconscious the " , Ideas/Gallimard, 1973 p 171/172.

Art to speak with oneself

“… it is necessary to be cultivated in art to speak with oneself, within the affect, and to use this one, as a framework of dialog, as if the affect were precisely an interlocutor whom it is necessary to let appear, by disregarding any critical spirit. But, this once achieved, the emotion having to some extent thrown its venom, it is necessary then conscientiously to weigh up its dires as if they were assertions stated by a being which is close and expensive to us. One should not besides stop in the course of road, the theses and antitheses having to be confronted the ones with the others until the discussion generated the light and forwarded the subject to a satisfactory solution. As regards the latter, only the subjective feeling will be able to decide some. Naturally, in similar debate, to skew with oneself and to seek subterfuges would not serve to us as nothing. This educational technique of animated presupposes a fastidious honesty and a honesty with the address of oneself, and a refusal to give up in a premature way with assumptions concerning will desidera or the expressions to await " the other côté". ” C.G. Jung " Dialectical of ego and unconscious the " , Ideas/Gallimard, 1973 p 174.

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