Sulagna Sengupta "Many Faces of the Animus" from her recent book, Animus, Psyche and Culture (1)

Many Faces of the Animus

Carl Jung’s concepts of the anima and animus have been critiqued in Post Jungian discourse for their essentialist biases and binary assumptions. In this lecture, the animus is envisioned as a fluid and dynamic phenomenon of the unconscious psyche, with active links in culture. The animus has many faces, destructive and benign, opposing and synthesizing, involving a wide spectrum of psyche and culture. The notion of the animus is presented here through diverse images of feminine emancipation, revealing the transformative potential of the archetype. This lecture will present the animus and its individuating telos through narratives and images, expanding upon Jung’s original views, and locating the archetype in contemporary psychological worlds.

Animus, Psyche and Culture : Sulagna Sengupta's recent book

Below are full book reviews by Andrew Samuels and Susan Rowland

Professor Andrew Samuels, Editor of Routledge Psychonalysis and Jungian Analysis; author of The Political…