ABSTRACT
A question I am frequently asked by my analytical colleagues is why I am so fascinated by the figure of the vampire, a symbolic image that Jung showed no interest in apart from one brief reference where he suggests interestingly enough that when a man’s relationship with the anima is not sufficiently developed at a conscious level, then it gives rise to states of possession in which the anima takes on a decidedly negative character which can be exemplified in images such as the succubus or female vampire (Jung 1934: para. 370).
