ABSTRACT

Carl Jung's written works were always designed for sophisticated audiences. Although seemingly impossible, Jung probably believed in the power of the interpretation of dreams even more than Freud. Jung thought that dreams were messages from an individual's unconscious, and, even though all people share a collective unconscious, the messages are, nevertheless, personal and individual. He felt that dreams served a compensatory function; that is, dream messages were attempts to compensate for 'a particular defect in the dreamer's attitude to life.' Jung also proposed that the psychological sexual component of masculinity, animus, is typically repressed and unconscious in females, and the psychological sexual component of femininity, anima, is repressed and unconscious in males. There is also an archetypal duality in these gender archetypes, that is, they both have positive and negative attributes. Anima's positive female attributes are characterized by feelings, emotionality, sentimentalism, finding the right inner values, kindness, romance, gentleness, and wisdom.