The Animus ─ The Spirit of Inner Truth in Women

Barbara Hannah tackled the theme of the animus in women's psyche with a comprehensiveness unsurpassed in Jungian literature. Her insight and vigor stem directly from personally grappling with her own animus while integrating the experience and reflections of psychotherapists working directly with C.C. Jung. Her psychological analysis of the minims is presented here in two volumes in essays gleaned from her handwritten notes, typed manuscripts, previously published articles (as well as her notes for those articles) and from her own drafts oilier lectures, given at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and to various audiences in Switzerland and England. The main objective of these two volumes is to present the reader with an all-inclusive synthesis of the many and complex essays and lectures Barbara Hannah presented on the animus while rendering the wonderful spirit and voice of Barbara Hannah herself.

Barbara Hannah was born in England and went to Zurich in tile 1920's to study with C.G. Jung. She remained in Switzerland as a practicing analyst and teacher at the C.G. Jung Institute. She is the author of Encounters with the Soul, Striving Towards Wholeness, Jung: His Life and Work, a Biographical Memoir, and The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals.