What if the connection between heart and mind in a man is feminine, where that connection in the woman is her masculine ‘side’?
Are the Anima and Animus literally the animating, animated part of the human?
Beautiful picture, by the way.
I have been thinking about the mind as an extension of the whole body of late as opposed to it just being expressed from the brain.
This has little to do with your post but heart being a part of the body and my latest thought made me want to say: Hello FC 
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What are you kidding about iambiguous?
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Fixed: you explain it to him. 
I do understand a little Jung - I just chose to say hi and add one of my usual tidbits instead of directly commenting.
A more detailed explanation is not necessary at this point. I was just being friendly - and I expected no response based on what I said.
Is your opinion of me low? You can be honest, I wont get hurt.
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Thanks for that.
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Hey Encode
That’s also the view Nietzsche holds, as does the East, in general - in Chi Kung there is the concept of the ‘second brain’ located 2 finger breadths under the navel, called Tan Tien, or in Japanese, Hara. (As in Harakiri, where a samurai stabs himself in that place for an honorable death)
Nietzsche calls the ‘mere brain’ the little self, and the body the greater self.
In Chinese Medicine, there is a sequence of 5 organs; heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys, liver, corresponding to five emotions; joy, worry, sorrow, fear, anger (and back to heart, joy) that is recommended rather than any other order. It’s a powerful form of meditation to feel these emotions in sequence, in general we are taught to avoid ‘negative emotions’ but that of course only clogs them and causes diseases of these organs. Its great to give them all the chance to express in this sequence. All of them are part of this greater self of which the heart is ruler.
I appreciate that. It certainly does relate.
The anima is the unconscious feminine in the masculine, the animus is the unconscious masculine in the feminine. Each of the two partners has a feminine side, an anima, and a masculine side, an animus. The anima (feminine) side of your partner is the side that is most sensitive, vulnerable and emotional, and the animus (masculine) side of your partner is the side that is analytical, critical and logical. To work on this anima/animus dynamic, I need to remember that I am not my anima or animus but that both are inside me and work on me. A man’s animus has to work on integrating the feminine side of himself into his masculine mind and ego.
Does the brain, via nerves, receive any messages from body parts other than OK and not OK? Is the anima the right brain and the animus the left brain? (Sperry), Romantic references to the heart, which is a pump, obscure the matter rather than clarify it.
In the past emotions were thought to come from the liver and the kidneys. Can you imagine what our songs would be like if that way of thinking had persisted?
“I left my liver in San Francisco”. e.g. Chinese medicine still connects emotion to body parts.
Well said. My wife and I used to discuss what the percentage of animus or anima was within each of us.
When you worship false idols you are bound to invent false and meaningless questions about them.
And get yourself all confused
Sculptor,
Are you saying that using words which point to something, like anima and animus. is the same as worshipping false idols?
