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Why it is difficult to see the anima as a helpful object: critique and clinical relevance of the theory of archetypes
Author(s) -
Von Raffay Anita
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1465-5922.00190
Subject(s) - archetype , epistemology , relevance (law) , object (grammar) , philosophy , constitution , psychology , general theory , psychoanalysis , biography , art history , history , law , mathematics , linguistics , theology , mathematical economics , political science
This paper is divided into three parts. The first deals briefly with more general aspects of the theory of archetypes (as conceived by Jung); the second examines the anima archetype in rather more detail, because it is, apart from the self, the main archetype in Jung's thought; and the third discusses the clinical repercussions of the anima theory and of the theory of the archetypes in general. The various references to Jung himself and certain circumstances of his life are included here on the assumption that personal problems in his biography contributed decisively to the constitution of his theory, so that deeper insights accrue if they are taken into account.