“Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”
― C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“Assimilation of the feminine side is indeed a decisive problem in a man’s individuation, but it remains his “private affair” since our patriarchal culture not only does not demand individuation but tends actually to reject it in the male. Assimilation of the archetypally masculine animus side of woman’s nature, however, is a different matter. In modern times patriarchal culture, which no longer oppresses her and hinders her cultural participation, motivates woman to develop the opposite side of her psyche from childhood onwards. This means that women are forced into a certain degree of Self-estrangement for the sake of conscious development. Initially more is demanded of them than of men. From woman both femininity and masculinity are required, while from him only masculinity. We are speaking here of one of the complications but also one of the opportunities inherent in woman’s situation for our culture that has led to there being such a high percentage of women involved in the development of modern psychology, actively through their collaboration and passively through their conflicts.”
― Erich Neumann, The Fear of the Feminine and Other Essays on Feminine Psychology
“When more men begin to heal/remember how to feel, the world will know peace, for they will stop projecting their unconscious internal war on the outside.
In this and many other cultures men have been conditioned in childhood to distrust their feelings and exile their feminine side, which includes emotional intelligence, body wisdom and intuition. This becomes the first wound every man carries: the wound of inner abandonment. When men distrust their inner feminine, they distrust the feminine voice/experience without as well, which deprives of them of vital guidance, connection and inner coherence. “
- – Ava Sol
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