anima
pronunciation
How to pronounce anima in British English:
UK ['ænɪmə]
How to pronounce anima in American English:
US ['ænɪmə]
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- Noun:
- (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious
Word Origin
- anima (n.)
- Jung's term for the inner part of the personality, or the female component of a masculine personality, 1923, from fem. of Latin animus "the rational soul; life; the mental powers, intelligence" (see animus).
Example
- 1. Concerning the archetypes , with special reference to the anima concept .
- 2. The feminine part , the mother , corresponds to th anima .
- 3. Aristotle : de anima on interpretation prior analytics categories .
- 4. Anima and animus express oneself by the most typical personified form in man 's unreasoning ' emotion ' and woman 's unreasoning ' thinking ' .
- 5. The dominant themes and symbolisms of his poetry correspond with the jungian notions such as regression , complex , the anima , the shadow arid the self , etc. roethke 's life of poetic creation may be justifiably referred to as a trip of psychic " regression " as a whole .