Junge Archetypes

Carl Jung believed that the psyche was constructed of three main components, The Ego, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. The Archetypes are the behaviors and personalities of a person, within a person. He believed that the archetypes exist within the collective unconscious, they're innate, universal and heredity.There are many of these Archetypes but I only want to focus on the following three.   

• Animus
• Anima 
• The Shadow

"The anima is a personification of all feminine tendencies in a man's psyche ..."; thus, the animus is the personification of all masculine tendencies in a woman.”  Within my photographs the Anima has control of the light and the Animus is manifest in my work through the female form and curved shape. 

The shadow is an archetype that consists of life and sex natures, this archetype is often described as the darker side of being, representing wildness, chaos and the unknown, represented with the literal shadow and foreboding subject matter.

When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight). ~Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.338.30