Animus Rising

In view of much recent biographical exploration of the life and views of famed Swiss psychologist, Dr. C.G. Jung, most provocative was his agape relation to women for whom he represented a supraordinate animus pulling at a most critical inner and unconscious male image (animus) of feminine psychology. The man and the animus were thus not separate in such a circumstance and resulted in his many extra-marital affairs. As collectively common as such traffic is it does not in Jung's case, account for his creatively brilliant stature as one of the leading psychologists of the 20th Century, more so because his forte was a preoccupation with theological and religious subjects. Jung, acclaimed or derided as "mystical" and measured with his collective and ordinary masculine necessities, does not, from the standpoint of the old fashioned Freudian super-ego, meet with a traditional moral propriety however promiscuous excesses were adopted as the less mentionable norm for the collective male life style.
In this respect he lived as an ordinary collective male, no better or no worse, insofar as the male of Western society exists in the thrall of the feminine projection of the animus. This by no means reflects a moral judgement on my part but a phenomenological approach to collective maleness and its relation to Animus Rising. It, of course, by necessity of the subject, would include myself and account for my own occasional intrusions of autobiographical details in the following work.

It must, however, be noted at the outset, that in my private views I fully appreciate most of Jung's metapsychological notions as well as his Analytical Psychology and its therapeutical effectiveness. Since, however, I am a practicing Painter and Poet my private relation to the figure of Jung is perhaps from his bottom side where for much of his life he secretly practiced painting and sculpture. But more to complicate matters I am also indulged of an interest in philosophy, something gained after studying Pre-Socratic philosophy with Prof. Hans Jonas, once colleague of Martin Heidegger. Thus my approach to both Art and Psychology involves existential and ontological concerns and includes a philosophical measure of Animus Rising and certain problems with "matter" (Mater qua Mother) that  preocuppied the pre-Socratic physiologoi Anaximander and then Aristotle. The problem is psychologically refreshed when Jung re-predicates the term "The Unconscious" as "The Maternal Unconscious" and which serves as the ground for Animus Rising.