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unconscious is an uncomfortable experience because it shows us our own vulnerability and inadequacy. When confronted with the shadow we feel guilt and shame for the parts of ourselves that we keep hidden. The shadow is the part of the unconscious that is all of our repressed and forgotten issues. The confrontation with the shadow is our "battle for deliverance" and is a necessary step in the process of individuation. "The shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door, who's painful constriction no one is spared who goes down the deep well." Jung. Crossing the threshold of the doorway, one enters into the collective unconscious where one is the "the object of every subject, in complete reversal of my ordinary consciousness, where I am always the subject that has an object." Jung. This is where one becomes one with the world.

The Trickster figure can be seen as the collective equivalent of the shadow. It is the primitive animalistic amoral nature of man. It hampers the progress of individuation and can be seen in myth as a clown or demonic figure. The trickster is the natural world of fate, where life is unfair, and things don't work as we planned.

The anima and animus can be well expressed in the eastern concept of the yin yang. They are the female and male opposites that express themselves in the duality of physical representation. Freud, Jung, and Adler all believed that we are essentially bisexual in nature, having started life as an asexual fetus. For Jung societal expectations meant that we only develop half of our potential. The anima plays and important part in men and the animus plays and important part in women. They are they syzygy or divine couple and effect our relationships with the opposite sex throughout our lives. Men and women have a tendency to project the anima and animus qualities in themselves onto people of the opposite sex. Jung said that men can not separate the mother archetype from the anima, as woman can not separate animus from the father/wise old man.

The Anima is the female aspect present in every man. Jung pays special attention to the anima in several of his essays. He describes her as the magical feminine who is a siren, mermaid, wood-nymph, or a succubus who infatuates young men and sucks the life out of them. In her negative aspect she is dangerously, destructively beguiling. Animus means soul, or the living breath of man. It is life and it wants to be alive. Because the anima wants to live, she wants both good and bad; good and

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