Aspects of the Masculine

The concept of masculinity was crucial not only to Jung's revolutionary theories of the human psyche, but also to his own personal development. This selection is an attempt to provide some ideas of Jung's thinking on this important part of his psychology.There is no single published work in which Jung devotes himself exclusively to the psychology of men or the psychology of the masculine, neither a monograph detailing a man's process of psychological development nor an essay devoted to the animus, the masculine archetype. One has to pick one's way through many essays. This selection is an attempt to provide in a single volume some ideas of Jung's thinking on this important part of his psychology.