Transvestia

the unconscious has changed in the last forty centuries. We swing into more exciting stuff with Dr. von Franz' Part 3, the Process of Individuation. She identifies this as the pattern of dreams, always changing but in such a way as to map out a consistent shape, just as growing leaves seen one at a time would map out a living tree. Central to this shape is the Self, an unconcious version of the total personality. Around it hover the Archetypes, each of greater or less importance in various persons: the Shadow, representing those parts of ourselves we'd rather not look at too closely; and the Anima (Animus in women) who represents the part of the person allied to the opposite gender. The Self can also develop into a sort of personification of wisdom, which Jung at first classed as the Magician Archetype but later abandoned.

This leaves the Anima as one of the two disturbing influences and very disturbing she can be! Those of us whose Anima can be cheered up by just a new $20 dress don't hardly know what trouble is, compared to those whose "sister", unrecognized in her dark prison, will settle for nothing less than the end of an otherwise satisfactory marriage! In case you think we invented the "girl within", take a look at page 186, and give the credit where it belongs, to Dr. von Franz.

The Anima always appears as a single figure, and various men's descriptions of her bear a striking similarity to one another, with the variations mostly coming from their actual mothers. These similarities transcend both time and race. She is capable of four stages of development: erotic, romantic, spiritual and pure wisdom. The latter is rarely reached in modern man. Sound like someone you've seen recently in the mirror? The Animus, on the other hand, is generally a group of figures, and when your GG comes out with THEY say .. or "What will THEY think?", she's probably unconciously referring to the "committee" of inner selves. Be kind to your Anima; she is clever, and tough, and knows all about poisons no toxicologist can detect ...

After that, Dr. Jaffee takes over for a tour of the viual arts which is mainly illustrative of the universality of these figrues of the unconscious Dr. Jacobi takes us through an individual analysis; not a "typical" one, as eachJungian analysis is unique