{
  "creator": [
    "Relke, Joan"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2007-02-27"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Carl Jung observed that myths and religions across cultures contain  common themes and entities: for example, images of the mother, father,  wife, husband, lover, fool, devil, shadow, hero, saviour, and many  others. The stories woven from these beings, as gods, goddesses,  semi-mortals, heroes, and demons, constitute the myths and religious  stories of humankind. Carl Jung postulated that these myths about such  archetypal entities constitute the ‘dreams’ of cultures, and that the  stories and archetypes originate in the dreams and fantasies of  individuals. This study explores, in two parts, two of these archetypal entities: the  anima and the mother, and how they manifest as goddesses in the myths  of various cultures and sometimes combine with each other. Part one  describes the two archetypes, their characteristics and manifestations,  and how they can be divided into three categories or realms:  goddesses  of the underworld, the earth, and the sky or celestial realm. It details  the difference between the anima in male consciousness and the animus  in female consciousness. Using a personal dream example and Jungian  theory, it then demonstrates that the anima in dreams and mythology can  be relevant to women as well as men. Focusing on the anima, it then  explores the underworld – the myths and entities of this shadowy realm  as an expression of the unconscious mind of the individual and whole  cultures. Part two extends the exploration to the animas and mothers of  the earth and sky, and how in these realms, the mother excels. While this exploration focuses mainly on the primary sources from Jung,  world mythology, and personal experiences and intuitions, it also draws  on the work of post-Jungian thinkers such as James Hillman, Ginette  Paris, Marion Woodman, and Michael Vannoy Adams."
  ],
  "format": [
    "text/html"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/389",
    "10.5964/ejop.v3i1.389"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/389/389.html"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Europe’s Journal of Psychology; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2007)",
    "1841-0413"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Carl Jung",
    "archetypes",
    "anima",
    "animus",
    "mythology",
    "goddesses"
  ],
  "title": [
    "The Archetypal Female in Mythology and Religion: The Anima and the Mother"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}