animus - noun - Basic attitude or animating spirit; disposition; intention; a feeling of ill will; animosity; in Jungian psychology, the inner masculine part of the female personality
Jung also claimed that men had a female side, which he naturally called the anima. What little Jung I've read makes me think he came a lot closer to the truth about what makes humanity tick than Freud did.
Carl Jung. He started out as a disciple of Sigmund Freud, and was even Freud's presumed successor in the psychoanalytic field, but he became a Freudian apostate; he certainly didn't think that all human behavior could be explained in terms of sexual urges. A good book that covers this and much else is Peter Gay's biography "Freud."
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Jung also claimed that men had a female side, which he naturally called the anima. What little Jung I've read makes me think he came a lot closer to the truth about what makes humanity tick than Freud did.
Carl Jung. He started out as a disciple of Sigmund Freud, and was even Freud's presumed successor in the psychoanalytic field, but he became a Freudian apostate; he certainly didn't think that all human behavior could be explained in terms of sexual urges. A good book that covers this and much else is Peter Gay's biography "Freud."
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