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The anima and animus

Jung's anima and animus are the contrasexual energies within each person—the feminine in men, the masculine in women—and your ability to integrate them determines whether you project them onto partners as saviors or meet them as equals. Unintegrated, these forces make you seek wholeness in another person, which always fails; integrated, they free you to choose from completeness.

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