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“The long-awaited first Russian book on intermodal therapy with expressive arts. A wide range of topics is covered, from philosophical foundations to practical exercises. The book also allows you to touch the author's invaluable personal experience in teaching and practicing art therapy. A must have for professionals in the field, as well as fun reading and inspiration for everyone interested. "

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“I looked through the topics of the authors' Ph.D. theses, they are very far from the practice of preschool education. It seems that the whole work is based on inferences, and not on the results of scientific research. All information has long been known to scientists dealing with this problem. Authors-philologists do not know at all psychological and pedagogical research in this area, and there are quite a lot of them. The content of the work resembles the FQP of a bachelor's or master's degree in Pedagogical Education, philological education is manifested in places. That's all. Thanks to the authors for the abstract work. "

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“Excellent metaphorical cards! The structure is unusual: the deck consists of 31 sets of photographs (each set contains 3 cards). You can work both with sets (instructions will come to the rescue), and with individual cards (according to the standard principle). There are a lot of possibilities for using the deck! The quality of the cards themselves is also very good. Thanks to the publisher for continuing to look for something new in the world of metaphorical cards! ”

“The sets are so-so. The old model, in some places with the drawings of the 2007 Calednarian, and the poster with emotions as a whole is useful and there are valuable quotes. For example, the bill of rights of the individual. But it's easier to find them on the Internet yourself, to order a print in a printing house than to pay extra for delivery. "

“I am a child psychologist, I have worked in a kindergarten for 12 years. During this time, I led group classes in various programs, including this one. I think this is a GREAT program. And children are interested in it, and it is interesting for a psychologist to work and see what happens, how children change. I highly recommend it, despite the fact that there are many other good programs now. The only thing in the subgroup must be 6-7 people maximum for everything to work. "

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“A book for thinking educators and responsible parents. Helps to better understand the origins of problems. Written in good language, the author presents specific material in an accessible and captivating manner. I teach a foreign language, but even for me the book was useful in terms of methodology and psychological aspects. "

“Hello! I want to say thank you for the program“ Year to School: from A to Z ”. I work as a teacher-psychologist and for the last academic year I led a group on psychological preparation of children for school. This year I have a similar task, but unfortunately in online stores, including yours, there are no workbooks for this program. Do you plan to publish these products in the near future? "

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Introduction

Editor's Note: This text is compiled from notes by Barbara Hannah. They were made in advance of the lectures on the animus, which she gave at the K.G. Jung in Zurich since October 1974. In her reflections, Barbara Hannah occasionally inserts phrases such as "tell a story about such and such ...", "Jung's quote from ..." or simply "develop", but further information is sometimes missing. Apparently, these memories spontaneously emerged in her memory during the lectures. We were able to identify and find many of these links. In those few cases where we could not find the source of the information, we just left it in its original form without further comment.

I would like to point out that 50 years ago, when I first came to Zurich, we were in a much more favorable environment for studying the manifestations of our animus in everyday life than we are now. Jung hated negative animus. If you even approached him just to say hello at a time when your animus manifested itself especially brightly, Jung immediately provided you with invaluable help in understanding his behavior in such a way that you remember this incident for a long time.

All other psychoanalysts at that time tirelessly tracked the anima or animus, learning to recognize them wherever they appeared in their own analysis with Jung. I don’t know to what extent this is practiced now, but sometimes we fall into shock when female students, even during graduation and diploma exams, brilliantly answer all questions with the voice of their animus, instead of speaking out from ourselves. In other words, they give absolutely correct answers, but at the same time you will not learn anything about their own opinion and about their creative ideas on this matter. Next, I will use the example of obsession in the Middle Ages to demonstrate how a woman can be completely at the mercy of her animus.

You can learn to tell the difference between a woman's real voice and that of her animus, regardless of the content of the speech. This, of course, applies to oneself. But it is very difficult to start tracking this constantly, unless you have gone through the school that fell to our lot when we communicated with Jung every day.

Here I am talking about the negative aspect of the animus, which is always the first to manifest itself when it interferes with external life. But he has another, very positive side, it appears in those cases when the animus is in its true place, that is, it plays the role of an intermediary between a woman and her unconscious.

Three years ago, I taught a course on the religious function of the animus in the biblical story of Tobit. In the beginning, his role was as negative as possible. Having killed Sarah's seven husbands, he completely fell under the influence of the collective devil archetype. But slowly, step by step, he was sent to his right place. As a result, his role became as useful as it was at first malicious.

Our first example this year will be a case of obsession with a nun in the late Middle Ages. On this material, we can learn a lot of important things about the transformation process. We will study this case from a psychoanalytic point of view, I think that modern analysts can learn a lot from examining the work of exorcists in the old days. I emphasize that I am talking about "exorcists" and not about "inquisitors", since the latter invariably applied the worst methods, and they completely lacked understanding of what they were dealing with.

These medieval cases of obsession were usually extreme. But in essence and in archetypal terms, they are similar to the animus obsession we face today. Obviously, it is easier for us to understand what is behind the daily actions of the animus when they manifest themselves with such force as in similar cases. But before we start studying this material, I want to make some digression, explaining what the animus is.

Under the term "Animus" we mean the male spirit or the unconscious mind of the woman. Emma Jung was constantly reminded of the importance of a good understanding of the difference between anima and animus. As you all know, anima is the Jungian term for the female soul of a man. Whereas animus means spirit or mind. There is still some confusion about these concepts.

When Jung first discovered the presence of the animus in the psyche of women, he sometimes said that it was the soul of a woman. Similar statements can be found in his early works. He changed his mind later when he saw more clearly the differences between anima and animus. At first, Jung believed that the animus was just a copy of the anima, but with experience, he began to understand the nuances of their differences. In fact, they are extremely important!

The reason a man is looking for his anima is because he wants to find his own image of the inner woman that belongs only to him, to get in touch with Eros and to know the essence of the relationship. In the beginning, all this is at the mercy of his anima. As for the woman, she is looking for an animus so that he would lead her to the Logos, that is, to her unconscious mind, which ultimately will allow her to find her own worldview. When she begins this journey, it is all in the hands of her animus. Simply put: a man wants to clearly understand what he is feeling, and a woman needs to recognize her own thoughts.

In general, we can say that a man always projects the function of relationships onto a woman, and a woman projects her mind onto a man. The purpose of working with anima and animus is to remove these traditional projections. The main task of a woman is the development and integration of the female spirit, that is, the inner Logos. She must assimilate this principle so that it becomes an integral part of her outer life, which will lead to a flourishing of harmonious cooperation. Then the mental-intellectual and instinctive parts will not be forced out into the shadows.

That is why creative activity is absolutely priceless for a woman. She will not be able to express herself creatively without having direct contact with own mind, but in many cases it is this part of the mind that is first in the unconscious. This is why so many women choose to have their husbands do the creative work for them. Or, as Emma Jung points out, it's easier for women to have another child.

A woman's worldview is composed of traditional beliefs that she carefully collects throughout her life, as long as she is controlled by the animus. These are the opinions of her father or other male authority figures whom she met in her youth. If she is lucky to have a brother, then these beliefs become not so ossified, but more alive. In our revolutionary times, the ideas of “her brothers” may be exactly the opposite of what she inherited from her father or other adult, authoritative men. But these ideas are not as useful as they might seem at the beginning, because they still represent nothing more than the same one-sided opinion, only of a more innovative nature. He also lacks the tension arising from the paradox, which is of paramount importance in working with the animus.

Women, whose animus are filled with traditional beliefs, usually, hiding behind such attitudes, use them as a strategy to achieve their desires or what they take for such. It should be noted that even now there are not so few such ladies, even among the younger generation. For example, under the strict rules of Victorian behavior, the wife hides her strong desire to have power over her husband. As a result, she does not have to see her own negative character traits, her jealousy, or a passionate desire to follow her own path. What would this lead to if she allowed ignoble impulses to lead her? She just adheres to the traditional foundations and the undeniable "correct" way of life. Jealousy, if a man or woman is not aware of it, perhaps, can turn into the most dangerous and destructive force in the world. Jung attributed jealousy to a lack of love and the ability to love. There is no doubt that it is so. But, if a person realizes his jealousy and suffers from it, then to some extent he pays for it. You can no longer be comforted by imagining yourself as a selfless angel if you realize that inside you are torn apart by such bad forces as jealousy and a sense of ownership.

Women whose animus provides them with a more modern outlook on life tend to go too far in the exact opposite direction, denying all tradition. This often leads to a promiscuous sex life. I remember once talking about a woman of this type with Jung. She was being analyzed by me. I confessed to him that it was extremely unpleasant for me to be in the role of a Victorian aunt, reading morality, because such ladies pretty ruined my own youth. He laughed and said, “And yet, you have to stop her, if, of course, you can do it. Too much sexual intercourse destroys the female Eros. " In his essay "Woman in Europe," Jung very clearly expressed the idea that for a woman, relationship with a man is the most important thing, which in essence is Eros. And the sex side, which is so important to men, plays a secondary role.

Of course, sexuality is a natural and necessary manifestation of Eros and an integral part of relationships. But, as Jung once pointed out, if sex is prioritized by diminishing the importance of the relationship itself, then the animus has prevailed in the situation. He begins to push the woman out of the relationship, which can lead to the fact that she herself will destroy the connection. In its original, unreformed state, the animus is like a jealous lover who constantly tries to make a woman his property. We will see this “jealous lover who destroys relationships with men” in the demons that were told by the nun Jeanne Feri, who lived in the Middle Ages.

Another favorite trick of the animus is to choose the wrong man for your projection. When a woman is bitterly disappointed, he quietly whispers to her: “Poor girl! But you know that all men are the same. You can only be happy alone next to me. " Thus, he gradually weaves a cocoon around the woman, completely cutting her off from the environment and the opposite sex.

The animus seems to have incredible amusement, inspiring a woman to challenge unyielding beliefs that are completely irrelevant to the situation, thereby driving the man to near insanity. Such scenes inevitably lead to the activation of his anima, which leads to the stupidest scandals, during which hackneyed truths, "facts" and disgusting emotions fill the space, and no one understands what is really going on behind this decoration. So many married couples spend a huge amount of time and energy on just such a pastime.

But it is not always the animus who initiates such scandals. The anima can also be blamed for this sin, since in her originally autonomous and unconscious state, she also wants “her” man to belong exclusively to her alone. In Benoit's novel Atlantis, we see an extreme case of such a relationship. His heroine lived at such a limit of mental strength that she left her lovers' life for just one night. Then she killed them, embalmed and put their bodies in niches located in a circle in her spacious mausoleum. And she herself sat in the center on the throne. )