ABSTRACT
In The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, C. G. Jung associates the anima with wisdom, the historical aspect, “a superior knowledge of life’s laws,” and the quality of being outside of time. There are certain types of women who seem to be made by nature to attract anima projections; indeed one could almost speak of a definite “anima type.” The persona mediates between ego and the external world, just as the anima bridges ego and the unconscious. Jung claims in “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” that the Kore corresponds to “the self or supraordinate personality on the one hand, and the anima on the other". Jung himself speaks of something like the femme fatale in “Marriage as a Psychological Relationship". Jung states, “If the persona is intellectual, the anima will quite certainly be sentimental,” meaning subject to powerful anima projection.
