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Anima & Animus - A list of attributes

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

gleaned from Liz Greene’s book Relating

Anima

  • Seduction
  • Illusion
  • Feelings
  • Emotions
  • Moodiness
  • Sentimentality
  • Hysteria
  • Bitchiness
  • Tenderness
  • Relatedness
  • Committment
  • Fidelity
  • Possessiveness
  • Friendship
  • Love
  • Compassion
  • Imagination
  • Fantasy
  • Gentleness
  • Romance
  • Creativity
  • Intuition
  • Instinct
  • Human Relationships
  • Unconscious Identification with Others
  • Earthiness

 

Animus

  • Power
  • Assertiveness
  • Courage
  • Analytical THought
  • Strength
  • VItality
  • Decisiveness
  • Focus
  • Attentiveness
  • Achievment
  • Argumentativeness
  • Mechanistic Behaviour
  • World of Ideas
  • Structures
  • Hunter / Warrior
  • Statesman
  • Intellectual
  • Purposive
  • Meaning
  • Objectivity
  • Will
  • Direction
  • Impersonal Perspective
  • Clarity
  • Purpose
  • Destroyer
  • Logic
  • Severs Relationship