Ànima

The famous "weeping rock," which stands on Mt. Sipylus in Turkey, has, since ancient times, been perceived as the embodiment of Niobe, the Theban queen of Greek mythology. She insulted the gods with her pride and was condemned to live in stone and mourn forever (Homer, trans. 20…

This inquiry is a cultural and historical hermeneutic that maps classical Jungian anima/animus theory over the lives and work of selected female Surrealist artists and writers. The goal is to see how this data might expand or reconfigure the concept of Individuation as Jung desc…