ABSTRACT
The anima, then, is a place in the psyche where a man can transcend his propensity to play roles, including the various archetypal roles which are explored in this chapter. In the archetypal complexes that Jung was the first to identify as ingredients of personality, a man can recognize his part personalities, the roles and values that he might choose to take up when trying to adapt to living in the world in a masculine way. Although the father is an archetype that needs little introduction to readers of masculine psychology, the Jungian understanding of how to work with it in psychotherapy has only infrequently been surveyed. Aside from presentations of the father as one of the parent archetypes, much of the Jungian literature on the masculine centers on finding the possibilities of the father archetype within, becoming a father, and living up to the demands of a father role that is ever being redefined through cultural change.
