Static Feminine
- Elemental image from uterus: dark, moist, holding to gestation
- Great Mother
- interdependent
- undifferentiated
- Mother Complex
- Positive aspect: evolution that makes life possible
- Negative aspect: indifference to individuality, resistance to change
Dynamic Masculine
- Elemental image from phallus
- Initiatory, action-oriented toward goal
- Mating, hunting strategy
- Hero, master, conqueror
- Positive aspect: cognitive development, linear expression, humanistic technology
- Negative aspect: harm, destruction, violence, disregard for nature
Static Masculine
- tendency toward organization and systems
- Herd mentality
- Patriarchal culture, hierarchical social order
- Preservation* of order, adaptation over authenticity
- Father Complex
- Negative aspect: order and organization for its own sake, dehumanization, bureaucracy
Dynamic Feminine
- Undirected movement
- Playful flow of experience, responsiveness
- Reciprocity of nature
- Creative process
- Maiden anima beckoning towards new unions, insights
- Positive aspect: transformed awareness, participation and process
- Negative aspect: altered state of consciousness that leads toward disintegration and chaos. drug dependence, hysteria, identity diffusion, psychosis