Yes, I am still trying to work on some more snake symbolism posts (yes I am) but it is taking for-freaking-ever unfortunately... there is just so
much! In the meantime, I've had a bit of a random musing about the animus/anima and Jung's understanding of their chracteristics. Jung describes the anima as a man's feelings and the animus as a woman's thinking, but when I think about my own animus, he's
definitely not my thinking. I think pretty damn well, actually. And he's
also not my spirituality. I have no problems there all on my own. Where I
do have problems is in my feeling and sensation functions, and this is where my animus seems to like to
spend his time. Who is my animus? What is he like? Well, he's exactly what I'm not... i.e.
not intellectual, but rather with a calm, confident emotional stability... Or when he's acting up, a raging, out of control hurricane of a beast.
This leads me to believe that the animus/anima is actually of our opposite function. Since most women Jung knew seemed to be mostly of the feeling function and most men of the thinking, Jung formulated his theory that a woman's animus is thinking and a man's anima is feeling, but I'm leaning more towards our anima/us just being our opposite. Its still early days, and I don't have a lot of evidence to back this up, but this is the direction I'm leaning towards.
I'm bipolar is suffering a high manic episode which means very little sleep and many remembered dreams. There have always been many "anima" figures in my dreams. Last night was "anima" hell. However the last was my anima (me) trying to get through to my self with some issues I've figured out and others that are too obscure to get. Unfortunately, I have nothing to add but this experience.
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