Animus The influence of Rachel White`s unconscious mind on her personality development in Emily Giffin`s Something Borrowed

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b. Animus

Animus is the masculinity that is part of the unconscious on every woman. Whereas the anima represents irrational moods and feelings, the animus is symbolic of thinking and reasoning. It is capable of influencing the thinking of a woman, yet it does not actually belong to her. It belongs to collective unconscious and originates from the encounters of prehistoric women with men. Jung believes that the animus is responsible for thinking and opinion in women just as the anima produces feelings and moods in men. The animus is also the explanation for the irrational thinking and illogical opinions often attributed to women. 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I share my fantasy with Darcy. Giffin, 2004:2. +, y - .+ + 01 .+ , 2 3 .2 y y + 3 ,4 4 3 .+ 2 3 3 2 5 , + - . 2 3 6. y 3 2 5 ,+ 2 3 3 1 . 7 .2 5 . + 8 9 01 . + , - 2 4 + , 6 3 :: 3 + 3 7 + . 3 3 + + 6. 1 ; + 1 + .+ - 3 . + .2 3 , 2 + 62 . . + - 4 +, , y , +3 .+ = 4 2 4 : , 7 +2 5 , + 2 y .2 2+ 3 - + + y + , y .2 2 +3 8 6 + 4 . 3 7 4 7 y 6 ; I wanted to be a bride in my twenties. But I have learned that you can t just create your own timetable and will it to come true. So here I am on the brink of a new decade, realizing that being alone makes my thirties daunting, and being thirty makes me feel more alone. Giffin, 2004:5. Since then, Rachel does not want to be single. She wants to be a woman who has a man that can be her caretaker. That is the reason why Rachel feels her life is so miserable when she reaches her thirtieth and still single. However, her animus makes her wants to be loved by finding a man who can be a good- caretaker as she has imagined. But then, Rachel still cannot find a good-caretaker for her because she is too passive: I review my three boyfriends, the three men I slept with in my twenties, searching for a common thread. Nothing. No consistent features, coloring, stature, personality. But one theme does emerge: they all picked me. And then dumped me. I played the passive role. Waiting for Hunter and then settling for Joey. Waiting to feel more for Nate. Then waiting to feel less. Waiting for Alec to go away and leaves me in peace. Giffin, 2004:70. However, Rachel accidentally has affairs with her first love, Dexter. When she has affairs with Dexter, she feels something different. The feeling that makes her wants to be an active role in relationship and makes her wants to get back her first love, Dexter. But the problem is that Dexter is Darcy s fiancé. 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c. Persona and Shadow