Dopo un'analisi con Carl Gustav Jung, Barbara Hannah divenne sua collaboratrice e in seguito fu attiva come analista, arrivando alla Psicologia analitica dopo aver dedicato parte della propria vita alla pittura e alla letteratura. La sua passione per le immagini e per le loro qualitą simboliche traspare in ogni pagina del libro, dove l'Autrice punta i riflettori sul processo creativo. Hannah sceglie alcuni romanzi classici che diventano lo specchio di un nascente dialogo tra la coscienza dell'individuo e le sue figure immaginali, da cui emerge un'archetipica tensione e attrazione tra gli opposti, come ad esempio tra la giovane Chaty e Hareton, nell'opera di Emily Brontė. In questo testo riscopriamo 'Lo strano caso del Dr. Jekyll e di Mr. Hyde' di Stevenson, 'Cime Tempestose' di Emily Brontė e 'Jane Eyre' di Charlotte Brontė e ce ne innamoriamo ancora di pił. E ancora: 'Villette', sempre di Charlotte Brontė, 'La signora di Wildfell Hall' di Anne Brontė e il meno conosciuto 'Prezioso Veleno' di Mary Webb. Barbara Hannah ci propone una feconda relazione fra Arte e Psiche e in questo modo figure anche complesse come Ombra, Anima, Animus e Individuazione diventano per il lettore pił familiari e riconoscibili.

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.G. Jung. Her psychological analysis of the animus 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 of her 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 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.