Anima

Quick meaning: Anima is a noun meaning (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.

Meaning

(Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.

More Meanings

1. (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.
2. (chiefly philosophy) The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.

Example Sentences

The projection-making factor is the anima, or rather the unconscious as represented by the anima.

Dorothy is bodiless and sexless in Tintern Abbey because she is Wordsworth's Jungian anima, an internal aspect of self momentarily projected.

In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.

[W]e cannot chuse but admire the exceeding vividness of the governing faculty or Anima of the Insect, which is able to dispose and regulate so the motive faculties, as to cause every peculiar organ, not onely to move or act so quick, but to do it also so regularly.

Word Forms

• animas

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include soul, life, animal, spirit, animus, object-soul.

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