Virgin Views

"What is the Goal of it All"

or

"Unfolding the Anima

by Virginia

Some of you will recall

that Carl Jung, who was a con- temporary (and sometime both collegue and antagonist of Freud) brought forward the conception of the presence in each sex of a complex of patterns and feel- ings more generally character- istic of the opposite sex. He named the masculine in the fe- male the "Animus" and the fem- inine in the male the Anima. This conception was accepted by some psychoanalysts and rejected by others. Thus the idea has lain sort of untended for some years. I have often said that those of us promoting the idea of the Dual Personality have taken up where Jung left off. Up till the last few months it was an inter- esting theory that seemed to fit the observations but one could not be any more concrete about it than being aware that one felt different as the femmeself than as the man self and considering that this was an indication of the validity of the theory.

Why do I say "up until the last few months" (I guess I should really say the last 6 weeks)? It is because of what has happened to me during this period. Before I go into this I think I should make the same sort of explanation that I have made prior to describing one of my trips; namely that I am not writing this down to brag, to lord it over those less fortunate or to try to set myself up as some-

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