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personality which, though still genetically appropriate, are socially unacceptable. Thus, a man's persona may be kind, obliging and helpful at work, while at home he is a merciless tyrant due to his shadow's release from social pressure. So far, dull.

The third layer is the interesting one, the Anima. Here we must distinguish between men and women for the first time. In men, the anima is a fairly independent feminine personality. This is not just true of TVs, but of men in general. Many of them can recognize it's exis- tance; group personality, like a committee representing the men who were very influential during their childhood. That's enough about them.

Now, the anima is derived from the man's mother, but is a highly stylized version of her. She has attri- butes that appear and reappear throughout the ages, when- ever men are describing the women who are significant to them. In different eras the image may be slightly changed or modified, but some characteristics seem to remain almost constant;;the anima has a timeless quality- she always looks young, though there is often a suggestion of years of experience behind her. Wise, but not formid- ably so; it is rather that something strangely meaningful- something like secret knowledge or hidden wisdom- clings to her". She is also two-sided, in effect with her own persona and shadow; on the one hand, the pure good, noble goddess and on the other the prostitute, the seduc- tress, the witch.

At this point I decided that Dr. Jung had been reading my mail, but he apparently had most of this worked out before I even had an address. So let's hear some more while he tells the secrets of our little play-mates: "Sometimes she appears elfin-like in character, and has the power to lure men away from their work or homes..." Of course, that could never happen to US, could it? "The anima carries spiritual values, and so her image is pro- jected not only onto pagan goddesses, but onto the Virgin herself; but she is also near to nature and charged with emotion. She is also the Beckoning Fair One luring men on to love and despair, to creative activity and to doom. She is in fact as throughly inconsistent as the woman she personifies." So, regardless of what brand of gas you

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