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It is known that every night she comes to life and tears the guard to pieces. An Austrian fairy tale recounts the following:Ī king posts a soldier to keep watch on the coffin of a cursed black princess who has been bewitched. In the dreams of a man, it takes the form of some-one who confers initiations (an Indian guru), a wise old man, a nature spirit, a hero, and so forth. In the dreams of a woman, the Self, when it personifies itself, manifests as a superior female figure, for example, as a priestess, a sorceress, an earth mother, or a nature or love goddess. It then appears in the form of the psychic core, that is, the Self. „When a person has inwardly struggled with his anima or with her animus for a sufficiently long time and has reached the point where he or she is no longer identified with it in an unconscious fashion, the unconscious once again takes on a new symbolic form in relating with the ego. The animus appears in many myths, not only as death, but also as a bandit and murderer, for example, as the knight Bluebeard, who murdered all his wives.“

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A dreamy web of thoughts, remote from life and full of wishes and judgments about how things 'ought to be,' prevents all contact with life. He embodies a form of the animus that lures a woman away from all human relationships and especially holds her back from love with a real man. Looked at from the point of view of mythology, the unknown wanderer here is clearly a pagan father and god figure, who manifests as the leader of the dead (like Hades, who carried off Persephone). The young woman is so frightened that she dies. At first he refuses to tell her, because he knows that she will then die, but she persists in her demand. Again and again she presses him to say who he is. A gypsy tale, for example, tells of a woman living alone who takes in an unknown handsome wanderer and lives with him in spite of the fact that a fearful dream has warned her that he is the king of the dead. For this reason the animus is also sometimes represented as a demon of death. The father imbues his daughter's mind with the specific coloring conferred by those indisputable views mentioned above, which in reality are so often missing in the daughter.

„Just as the mother influence is formative with a man's anima, the father has a determining influence on the animus of a daughter.

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