Animus, Psyche and Culture

Animus, Psyche and Culture takes Carl Jung’s concept of contra-sexual psyche and locates it within the cultural expanse of India, using ethnographic narratives, history, religion, myth, films, biographical extracts to deliberate on the feminine in psychological, social and archetypal realms.

Jung’s concept of unconscious contra-sexuality, based on notions of feminine Eros and masculine Logos, was ...