Anima & Animus

At the archetypal level, Anima and Animus contain fundamental gender related insight serving as  important internal guides to wholeness and individuation. As complexes within Ego consciousness, they contain only a part of this potential because they are limited by the collective and individual understanding and experience of gender prevailing at the time. Much has changed in the understanding of gender within collective and individual consciousness since the mid Twentieth Century,  so these concepts are now quite outdated. Attending to archetypal resonance as images of anima and animus emerge in dreams and other manifestations of the Self in relation to this developing understanding will assist these Ego complexes to evolve and more fully reflect their archetypal core.