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Анимата и анимусът в плен на родителските комплекси
Animus and Anima in captivity of parents' complexes

Author(s): Vanya Grigorova
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Институт за изследване на населението и човека - Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: Theoretical analysis is devoted to the determinant role of parents' complexes in forming and integrating of the Self Their connection with unconscious acting psychic structures and their real existence in all men and women — named Anima and Animus, are also revealed. Anima and Animus incite us in love, but what is their real functions, what we have to learn out of the failures in love relationships — all this is still an open question in psychological science. The possibility of the distorted archetype or the dependent one on parent's complexes archetype that could be projected in partner's choice and in marriage is discussed in detail. It is concluded, that archetypes are exclusive important — though they are unconscious, they act in real behaviours.

  • Issue Year: 04/2001
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 123-127
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Bulgarian