The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Works by Erich Neumann Book 15)

independently of the experience of the individual.

Just as in a certain sense a sound body is the foundation for a sound spirit and psyche, so a sound individual is the basis for a sound community.

That is to say, in the transformative character of the anima the prospective, anticipatory function of the unconscious has become personified and configured; confronting the ego as the nonego, it attracts it and exerts a spell upon it.

Every mood that takes hold of the entire personality is an expression of the dynamic effect of an archetype, regardless whether this effect is accepted or rejected by the human consciousness; whether it remains unconscious or grips the consciousness.

an anticipatory character and makes possible the later conscious process.

willingly to the victor, whose superiority, shown by his solving of the riddle, redeems the princess herself, who is this riddle.

embracing the spontaneity of consciousness.

The numerous princesses who present riddles to be solved do indeed kill their unsuccessful suitors. But they do so only in order to give themselves

Here the projection phenomenon plays a special role because the elements of the opposite sex in the speaker’s own psyche, the anima in the man and the animus in the woman,1 are experienced as the reality of the opposite sex.