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Carl Jung: “What, then, is this projection-making factor? The East calls it the “Spinning Woman” Maya …”

Gustave Moreau: Salome Dancing before Herod (detail) Carl Jung talks about the projection making factor behind the anima… What, then, is this projection-making factor? The East calls it the “Spinning Woman” Maya, who creates illusion by her dancing. Had we not long since known it from the symbolism of dreams, this hint from the Orient…

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Anima: Ten Quotations from Carl Jung

Salome Dancing Gustav Moreau The projection-forming factor is the anima. Wherever she appears in dreams, phantasies or visions, she appears personified, thereby demonstrating that basically she possesses all the outstanding characteristics of a female person. She is not an invention of the conscious, but a spontaneous production of the unconscious; neither is she a substitute…