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bad do not exist for soul. She is also a contradiction because she is at once chaotic but also reveals a sense of hidden plan and order. She is the male archetype of life and meaning. In her positive aspect she is man's connection to the unconscious, and is the guide through the tight corridor of the Shadow.

The anima has four stages of development. The first stage is symbolized by the Eve figure, which represents purely instinctual and biological urges. The second stage is like Juliet and personified on a romantic aesthetic level but is still characterized by sexual elements. The third level is represented by someone like the Virgin Mary, who raises erotic love to the heights of spiritual devotion. The final stage is represented by a figure like the Mona Lisa who is wisdom transcending the most holy and most pure. In the process of individuation a man must not become a victim to his erotic fantasies or become compulsively attached to one actual woman. He must learn to take his fantasies and feelings seriously or will risk stagnating the process of individuation.

The anima transmutes into the Great Mother. In a sense she is the higher stages of development of the anima. The great mother is a primordial concept that is seen in every culture across time and space. She is Mary, Demeter, Isis, the Earth Mother Goddess of the pagans. She is the germinator of the seed of life which is our human inheritance. Each of us comes pre wired into the world with a need for mother having come directly from her. We cannot exist or live without her nurturance and support. "The archetype is often associated with things and places standing for fertility and fruitfulness: the cornucopia, a ploughed field, a garden."

The animus is the male personification in women. He does not appear as erotic fantasy or mood but appears as "sacred conviction." Animus means spirit or spirited. The spirit is a moving force in the same sense as the soul is. It is alive and enlivening. "It is the phenomena of rational thought, or of the intellect, including the will, memory, imagination, creative power, and aspirations motivated by ideals." In his positive aspect he is a woman's connection to the unconscious and Self through creative activity. In his negative aspect he is will interfere with others, is domineering, demanding, dogmatic, argumentative, and lets himself be taken in by second rate thinking, brutal, reckless, full of empty talk, and silent, obstinate, evil ideas.

The animus has four stages

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