Animus & Anima: How To Integrate The Masculine & Feminine Archetypes - Inner Work Library [136/500]
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Integrate your Anima and Animus with this episode of Inner Work Library Q&A. This video explores the archetype psychology of the masculine archetypes and feminine archetypes - with shadow work exercises to practically help you progress on your individuation journey from fragmentation to wholeness with a focus on anima psychology and animus psychology according to the work of Carl Jung and other Jungian Psychologists.
Check the pinned comment to see 22 books on masculine psychology and feminine psychology, in addition to learning more about anima psychology or animus psychology.
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️
00:00 Carl Jung & Jungian Archetypes
01:11 How To Integrate Your Anima & Animus
03:38 Read These 22 Books (Pinned Comment)
04:12 Masculine Integration vs Feminine Integration
09:46 My Experience Working With Clients
13:55 Jungian Psychology (Theory & Practice)
17:09 This Is What Self Integration Feels Like
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Topics explored: inner work; shadow work; shadow work jung; jungian psychology; toxic relationships; sexual psychology; anima; animus; anima jung; archetypes; archetype; jungian archetypes; animus integration; anima integration; how to integrate your anima; masculine energy; feminine energy; feminine archetype; masculine archetype; anima projection; animus projection; carl jung; jungian; jung; anima animus; archetype psychology; masculine archetypes; feminine archetypes; animus anima;
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*READING LIST: 22 BOOKS ON ANIMA & ANIMUS*
1. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, Moore & Gillette.
2. Sage, Huntress, Lover, Queen, Mara Branscombe.
3. The Pregnant Virgin, Marion Woodman.
4. Archetype, Anthony Stevens.
5. The Shadow King, Sidra Stone.
6. Complex, Archetype, Symbol, Jolande Jacobi.
7. Gods In Everyman, Jean Shinoda Bolen.
8. Goddesses In Everywoman, Jean Shinoda Bolen.
9. Iron John, Robert Bly,
10. What Men Are Like, John Sanford & George Lough.
*EXTENDED READING LIST (SCREENSHOT THIS)*
11. She, Robert Johnson.
12. He, Robert Johnson.
13. The Magician And The Analyst, Robert Moore.
14. The Way Of The Superior Man, David Deida.
15. Archetype Medicine, Kasia Gwilliam.
16. Into The Heart Of The Feminine, Massimilla & Bud Harris.
17. To Be A Woman, Essay Collection.
18. Messages Men Hear, Ian Harris.
19. To Be A Man, Essay Collection.
20. The Circle Of Nine, Cherry Gilchrist.
21. Ego And Archetype, Edward Edinger.
22. The Soul's Twins, Jean Raffa.
This is not an exhaustive reading list, but you will learn an incredible amount about your anima/animus if you take the time to purchase and read at least six of these books.
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Yes! Thank you for sharing this list
Respect.
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I always feel reinvigorated after watching your videos. For some reason, it helps to see someone else dedicating large amounts of time to studying texts like these. Out in the world, I feel alone in doing this and I sometimes worry I am wasting my time… So thank you for showing me that I am not alone.
There are hundreds of thousands of us, I’m sure. Although I agree it can be hard to find each-other when we spend so much time reading alone 😉
You consistently open my mind up to a broader perspective. It really showcases your depth of integrated knowledge. I buy a lot of the books you recommend and they’re always amazing. Currently reading Jung’s map of the soul by Murray stein. I’m understanding Jung’s theory so much better than I ever have. Jung really set the foundation of theory but provided minimal application, I absolutely love your takes on all of his work. This all logically makes sense to me and I’m excited to approach my own journey with this new perspective. Thank you for your work ❤️
Brendan, you would love the shadow work library course approach if you’re voracious with the reading. Would love to see you inside if you ever consider adding even more structure to your studies - will be adding a community element into the course in spring too. Comments like these make me realise the need to put extra focus into creating spaces for discourse as we read these books and go deeper than the typical UA-cam shallows. Jungian studies especially should have that real-world application element, which is something I’m glad you appreciate in my work. Great consistency in your channel too brother - very nicely put together teaching 🌲
Great timing on seeing this video today. You have inspired me to look deeper into my inner child with the work of John Bradshaw. Being part of the mankind project for many years witnessing the wounds that were being expressed, I just recently accessed a part of me that was holding the grief of the inner child. This weekend I did an ayahuasca ceremony with an indigenous elder that started the ceremony with honouring the directions and the meaning our ancestors held in these quadrants. In short I experienced a letting go of my ancestral patterns as I purged and symbolically my heart was broken open. In that space I could sense I presence of holding my inner boy as well as my daughters inner girl and feeling the energy of what I judge to be the masculine energy. The years of processing my trauma in that short experience with mother energy of ayahuasca allowed me to open my heart. I find I am now able to access this energy in speaking with a woman. I was present, and in touch with the energy to hold the feminine not only within me but with her sense of surrendering to my new found energy. It feels good to know and trust that this is and has always been within me. ☯️
Thank you for sharing some of your story here in detail. I’m happy to be here in good timing, and it sounds like you’ve undergone a major transformation. Stay steady, and enjoy this new way of experiencing the world - hold it close, keep going.
I appreciate the support in integrating the teachings. I feel I am now leading in this transformative journey with these small steps of growth. Championing the wonder child within. Blessings on your wisdom.
Thank you Jordan❤️..I just wanted to say that I appreciate your work a lot.. you remind me of a metaphor.. "Going all alone in the darkness.. finding light.. fkin making it happen" .. You are a really strong man.. The guts you have is inspiring.. Many ppl actually under value mental health n traumatic pattern.. But the only thing that gives us hope is people like you, Jordan.. Cuz it gives us the courage that, you did it once.. Now we too can do it. Started reading 'PTSD from survivor to thriver'.. Thanks a lot once again.🌹
Great comment to read here today, thank you for dropping in and sharing such thoughtful reflections. Stay steady on the path.
Jordan, I love the way you frame your thoughts and wisdom in an understandable and deeply knowledgeable way!
My wish to dive deeper into psychology, especially the feminine and masculine archetypes, has been sparked since I found you. I now have a much better understanding of the ways I can approach it, and how I can use it for my own self-development.
I'd love to work with you someday when I have the means and when the time is right. Until then I will lurk as a viewer under your videos.
I'll be here when the timing is right, although my Shadow Work Library could be a great place for you to join me for more depth. I'll be adding a community aspect in the spring with group calls included as part of the one-time fee. Great time to get seriously stuck into the material and access some new insights.
Still looking forward to that bedtime rebellion video man if you haven’t forgotten lol. Thanks again
Sure thing - I've got the screenshot and will see what I can do but I do have FAR TOO MANY questions to respond to haha
Absolutely in resonance with your message in this video. Living it out presently, actively and intentionally. I am currently doing a course in Somatic Intimacy where the inquiries embody tenderness, gentleness, kindness, spontaneity, poetry, creativity, attunement, listening and active, authentic response - what a gift to observe and learn so that practice comes from a place of resource and research.
This sounds like a beautiful and experiential learning journey. I'm glad that you've got this opportunity and am sure you will have plenty to share from your experiences. Amazing - keep me posted!
Absolutely resonates with me. Thanks for this video. 🙏🏼
Thank you, Jordan! That's a great reading list.
Plenty for everyone to get involved at some serious depth!
Yesterday, I was about to text you to deliver your thoughts on this much needed topic, and here you are. You amazed me. Thanks for your deep and integrated information
Right on time it seems! Happy to have picked up your message hahah
The path ahead is daunting. I have such a strong desire toward depth psychology, buts it’s just that: deep. I trust the more I experience, the more people I can help and reach at the right time and in the right place. Thank you 🙏
Just go one book at a time - I built this library with no formal psychology experience. You got this, it really is one well-chosen book at a time for 3-5 years. Check out the pinned comment ✌🏻
Excellent video, Jordan! Thanks for sharing your recommendations. Would you consider making a video on solitude?
Screenshotted, and I'll see what I can do in the months ahead. Great topic.
EXTREMELY important subject!!!
Agreed!
Thank you for this. Thank you for being.
You are truly most welcome.
The way of the superior man is the best book i have ever read❤❤❤.
Classic, for sure!
That is a deep voice.
Wishing you well my man.
insightful
Thank you, more to come.
Hey Jordan,
Really like the video and how it follows on from your valentines day upload in some ways I found.
I've really been trying to put your advice into practice, especially in regards to the stuff that applies across the board such as work ethic around fitness and reading. I have found that my attention span is hard to get on top of in general but when It comes to things I perceive as "work", I feel like I'm doing pretty much everything but what I intend to do for aslong as possible. sometimes it's a sort of subconscious habit, but when trying to apply myself I now realise how avoidant I have become of discipline for whichever reason.
I think this topic is kind of mentioned in other videos of yours if I remember correctly and with some reading material shared but I haven't been able to get through much of the book due to really poor attention span, I will have another look for it though just incase.
Just wondering if you knew anything that might help with this in another video or any advice on what could be beneficial in working on this.
Thanks 😀
You probably need to change your relationship with your phone / social media / screen entertainment. The effects go deep. If you've already got this completely locked down without screen-sucking being an issue, the consider looking deeper into the somatics of nervous system regulation - particularly with focus on apathy and avoidance. Good luck.
@@jordanthornton okay thanks mate
I recently listened to an episode of Mikala Peterson’s podcast that her dad Jordan Peterson was on where he mentioned in his youth he had an issue of putting women on a pedestal in dating which made him come off less confident, more inferior, which can kill a woman’s attraction to a man. He said that it was an anima problem he had to sort out. It’s an issue I find myself also experiencing but he didn’t exactly explain what that meant to sort out his anima issue. I’ve been researching anima videos ever since and still don’t quite get it. Could you maybe explain in another video what it is exactly Peterson was getting at and how we can also overcome that anima issue?
That or maybe recommend which of the books in this video most closely relate to the issue of putting women on a pedestal?
Great question and good to see you here again, Nathan. The best books you'll want to read are Invisible Partners by John Sanford and The Eden Project by James Hollis. They'll really help and will solve some issues. Once more good to see you here and look forwards to the future!
I would suggest anything by James Hillman and Laurence Hillman. I'm very surprised that they weren't mentioned. "Archetypes at Work" completely changed my life, they they are currently enlisting Guild members for those who want to help other learn this energetic embodied language.
Yes, some great work here! I really had to limit the list to make this not too much of an overwhelming video beyond 22 books hahah
I would recomend also a good book by Jean Shinoda Bolen called Ring of Power. Is about Wotan and Sigefreid and the whole Archetype of Power Hungry and the Choice of Love.
Yes, she writes very well!
Hey Jordan Thornton I Was Wondering How Exactly Do Physics and Psychology Relate,
Because the Observers Effect and Philosophy
Idea of Metaphysics Like The Drop is the Ocean... just Curious
Not something I'm really focused on, I'm afraid!
Alchemy 🗝️💜
That’s part of the key!
@@jordanthornton agreed . 💜
@@jordanthornton I have a question. If you have the time, I recently wrote something that eventually will be part of the book I'm creating. Would you be willing to read and give me your feedback ? It is only two pages and if you are unable that would be okay. I admire your brain and I know you read a lot so I figured you would give great feedback. Thank you 💜🌙🗝️
It's not something that I'm able to do, and it's a request I get a few times per month! I'm still wishing you the very best with your creative work, and appreciate your understanding that I can't be a proof-reader here! Wishing you well.
@@jordanthornton no worries thank you for responding!
Hi Jordan, I’m curious about what you say to any people who have are gender fluid or non binary? Do you disagree that it’s possible to embody the entire yin/yang symbol, to be grounded in both archetypes and move freely between them?
Not something that I could speak on here in much detail - but I generally agree with the traditional perspectives on the masculine and feminine, and more research and client work has only further affirmed this. Wishing you well 🌲
REQUEST - Brother from all your wisdom could you summarise what actually woman want in a man. 🙏🏾
Truth, strength, structure, provision, clarity, compassion and safety ✌🏻
@@jordanthornton thankyou soo much big brother but I may be misunderstood by these words what you actually understand and dimensions about each word and what woman sense according to their way. Could you elaborate or make a specific video on it. Please. Love from India. 🙏🏾
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Cheers, always.
Iron Jonh I felt is a little bit weird. And I forgot but I got some bad critics about it.
An important book in the men’s movement, but some controversy there for sure. Appreciate your opinion 🌲
What do you make, Jordan, of Peterson's claim that only smart/creative people relate well to Jung? I've met some rather average IQ folks that still get fascinated with these ideas (though may require some guidance and can't just go off and read Jung themselves very effectively)
I'm not familiar with this, but I never usually advise anyone to read Jung directly. I likewise don't have extensive experience working with perhaps what you call 'average IQ folks' - the people who tend to come here are usually rather bookish by default hahaha
Gotcha. Also, I kinda put my foot in my mouth w/ "average IQ" comment--but some people are less creative, some more. I just noticed that, say, with my friends in college (and I roomed mostly with professional musicians), when we discussed dreams, they were epic, freakin Biblical or mythological in character/content, and I found Jung/depth-psychology so much more relevant to them. With others, say marketing/sales people, CBT and other stuff was often more relevant to their situation. Peterson remarks on such, but then I noticed exceptions, where some of my friends who would never claim to be "intellectuals", etc, can also be really enthused by Jung's ideas and depth psychology, though they don't often have the tools to dive in unguided @@jordanthornton
Them books got U Lost😂
Sure, probably.
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Appreciate you being here!