The Animus: Nature & Expression in the Media
May 6, 2017 16:00:52 GMT -5 by Auburn
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Post by Auburn on May 6, 2017 16:00:52 GMT -5
tobyspringfield - I've asked myself that before too.
I think to answer that first it helps to define what these gender differences consist of, which this video does a great job of summarizing.
Gender differences don't show up in humans until around puberty, and the onset of hormonal changes causes both physical and psychological changes. This naturally creates different environmental stressors for each sex. Suddenly it becomes the 'duty' (per se) of the male to be the pursuer, and self-consciousness begins to set in regarding women and their capacity to swoon. And suddenly women may begin to feel threatened by men and their newfound strength, but also allured by them at the same time. This real-life drama is essentially the anima/animus dynamic. It'll show up most obviously when it's really in effect.
When the archetypes constellate in our dreams (for instance) they will inform us of what wider thematic struggle we are amidst, and which our current life situation represents. So they'll match our sex because our sex produces those dramas.
As for shifts in sexual orientation....
What I've come to know (and this isn't obvious, though implied in Jung's work) is that both sexes have the psychic constellations of the anima and animus within them. Which is also evident in how we all potentially experience the Father and Mother archetypes, which are variants of the two. The one that most prominently shows up to you is the one that encapsulates your personal drama.
So I would postulate that someone like an FiNe 4 male may experience more personal affiliation/familiarity with the anima archetype, it's virtues and nature. And the animus concept and nature may seem more foreign to him. Proportional to how divorced a psychic element is from our ego, it will appear mysterious or mystical to us when it constellates cognitively. We can integrate both but we start on one end of the spectrum.
Still, one will start out directly tied to our ego in a very somatic way. A straight male automatically ego-associates to the Animus, to the idea of penetration, causing them to chase the Anima. And vice versa. I do suspect gay people start out with the opposite archetype constellated mentally, due to their opposite desire to penetrate/be-penetrated.
But this is only my $0.02 from the bit I've gathered.
I think to answer that first it helps to define what these gender differences consist of, which this video does a great job of summarizing.
Gender differences don't show up in humans until around puberty, and the onset of hormonal changes causes both physical and psychological changes. This naturally creates different environmental stressors for each sex. Suddenly it becomes the 'duty' (per se) of the male to be the pursuer, and self-consciousness begins to set in regarding women and their capacity to swoon. And suddenly women may begin to feel threatened by men and their newfound strength, but also allured by them at the same time. This real-life drama is essentially the anima/animus dynamic. It'll show up most obviously when it's really in effect.
When the archetypes constellate in our dreams (for instance) they will inform us of what wider thematic struggle we are amidst, and which our current life situation represents. So they'll match our sex because our sex produces those dramas.
As for shifts in sexual orientation....
What I've come to know (and this isn't obvious, though implied in Jung's work) is that both sexes have the psychic constellations of the anima and animus within them. Which is also evident in how we all potentially experience the Father and Mother archetypes, which are variants of the two. The one that most prominently shows up to you is the one that encapsulates your personal drama.
So I would postulate that someone like an FiNe 4 male may experience more personal affiliation/familiarity with the anima archetype, it's virtues and nature. And the animus concept and nature may seem more foreign to him. Proportional to how divorced a psychic element is from our ego, it will appear mysterious or mystical to us when it constellates cognitively. We can integrate both but we start on one end of the spectrum.
Still, one will start out directly tied to our ego in a very somatic way. A straight male automatically ego-associates to the Animus, to the idea of penetration, causing them to chase the Anima. And vice versa. I do suspect gay people start out with the opposite archetype constellated mentally, due to their opposite desire to penetrate/be-penetrated.
But this is only my $0.02 from the bit I've gathered.
