‘Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin… - Simone Schwarz Bart

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Selfportrait  2012

(I already did this one in 2011 - I retook it with a better camera / lens)

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Anima
Selfportraits, shot during 2011 in the frame of “one selfportrait a day”
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Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung believed that the personal unconscious acted as a superficial layer of a much larger and deeper layer of the unconscious. He called this deeper layer the collective unconscious, and its contents he called archetypes.

The anima (as one of these so called archetypes) personifies all the feminine psychological tendencies within the man, such as prophetic hunches, intuitions, moods, receptivity, capacity for personal love, a feeling for nature, and his relation to the unconscious.

Jung distinguished four broad stages of the anima in the course of a man’s psychological development. He personified these, according to classical stages of eroticism, as Eve, Helen, Mary and Sophia.

In the first stage, Eve, the man’s Anima is completely tied up with the mother– not necessarily his personal mother, but the image of women as faithful provider of nourishment, security, and love: Eve represents all that is natural, instinctual, and biological. The man with an Anima of this type cannot function well without a vital connection to a woman and is easy prey to being controlled by her.

In the second stage, personified in the historical figure of Helen of Troy, the anima is a collective sexual image. (“All is dross that is not Helen”-Marlowe). The man under her spell is often a Don Juan who engages in repeated sexual adventures. These will invariably be short-lived, for two reasons: (1) he has a fickle heart, and (2) no real woman can live up to the expectations that go with this unconscious, ideal image.

In the third stage the anima resembles Mary, named after the Christian theological understanding of the Virgin Mary (Jesus’ mother). At this level, females can now seem to possess virtue by the perceiving male (even if in an esoteric and dogmatic way), in so much as certain activities deemed consciously unvirtuous cannot be applied to her.

The fourth and final phase of anima development is Sophia, named after the Greek word for wisdom. Complete integration has now occurred, which allows females to be seen and related to as particular individuals who possess both positive and negative qualities. The most important aspect of this final level is that, as the personification “Wisdom” suggests, the anima is now developed enough that no single object can fully and permanently contain the images to which it is related.

(Text source: Wikipedia)

Thanks Maia, for taking my fan photo as cover for Musetouch (Issue 17)
You rock, girl!

Splash.
If you love the ocean as I do, there is no bad season for being at the sea!
Trip to the Azores 2012
More travel pics by me via Travelingnini.tumblr.com

I don’t know where I am going…

(2012-04-22)
Selfportrait
Nini Baseema

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