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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈænɪmə/Part of speech nounSorted aaimnStarts with AEnds with A0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin anima (“a current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, soul”), sometimes equivalent to animus (“mind”), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”); see animus. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”), Old English anda (“anger, envy, zeal”). More at onde.

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  • In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.
  • Dorothy is bodiless and sexless in Tintern Abbey because she is Wordsworth's Jungian anima, an internal aspect of self momentarily projected.
  • The projection-making factor is the anima, or rather the unconscious as represented by the anima.

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