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New Beginnings

Part 7

Falling in Love

Starts with Projection

“The factors which come together in the is made up largely of her history with
coniunctio are conceived as opposites, her father, brothers, or any significant

either confronting one another in enmity early experiences with men. This inner
or attracting one another in love.” masculine helps her to achieve her goals,

— Carl Jung, Mysterium Conuinctionis, gives her greater intellectual clarity, helps
paragraph 1 her have clearer boundaries and becomes
a mediator between her ego and her

Unless we can experience retrieving our unconscious. This unconscious inner
shadow which is a very long and laborious male is her God (soul) image that gets

process, we may never be able to understand projected onto a man in the outer world.
the masculine and feminine contra-sexual As inner and outer create a mirroring
images in our unconscious which Carl Jung effect, she will discover a great deal

called the “Anima” and “Animus.” These about her masculine inner partner by
images, deep within our unconscious began identifying characteristics of the person

with our first experience of the opposite sex upon whom the projection lands.
— our mother and father.
According to Jung, a man faces a similar

A woman carries an image of her dilemma. When a man projects his
male counterpart, her “Animus,” who perfect God (soul) image onto a woman,

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