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# Feminine
- URL: https://www.descentpress.com/index/feminine/
- Published: 2026-09-05T04:40:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T20:10:07.000Z
- Description: Feminine — Descent Press Index (entry forthcoming).
- Author: Jae Botávn
- Tags: #index, #Import 2026-09-04 23:45

## 1\. Etymology

**Feminine** in Sharp’s lexicon is a **cross-reference cluster**: see [anima](https://www.descentpress.com/index/anima/), [eros](https://www.descentpress.com/index/eros/), and [logos](https://www.descentpress.com/index/logos/). Samuels redirects *feminine* to *gender*—cultural classification of sexes as masculine and feminine, distinct from biological sex.

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## 2\. Plain summary

Descent Press does not treat **feminine** as a free-floating essence. Sharp points readers to the living lemmas where Jung worked the material: [anima](https://www.descentpress.com/index/anima/) as life-archetype and contrasexual soul-image in a man; [eros](https://www.descentpress.com/index/eros/) as relatedness-principle often (not exclusively) paired with woman’s psychology; [logos](https://www.descentpress.com/index/logos/) as the complementary discriminating principle.

Samuels’s *gender* head warns that Jung often wrote as if unaware of the gender/sex distinction, while still tracking cultural change and psychology of masculinity and femininity. House rule: engage Jung’s typology claims at their best, note contingent pairing language, and keep biological sex, cultural gender, and psychic contrasexual images from collapsing into one slogan.

**Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common feminine motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):**  
Sharp redirect to [anima](https://www.descentpress.com/index/anima/) / [eros](https://www.descentpress.com/index/eros/) / [logos](https://www.descentpress.com/index/logos/); Samuels → gender; cultural vs biological sex; contrasexual image; relatedness pairing (non-exclusive); psychology of masculinity/femininity; avoid essence slogans; dual-stamp path to parent lemmas.

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## 3\. Academic elucidation

In analytical psychology feminine is **index hub, not separate Sharp essay**—content lives in anima / Eros / Logos / gender. §5 holds sample CW stamps at CW 9i ¶167; CW 9ii ¶29\. Prefer CW 9i / 9ii / 7 as stamped there.

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## 4\. Lexicon

**Sharp (1991)**

> Feminine. See anima, Eros and Logos.

(Sharp, 1991)

**Samuels, Shorter & Plaut (1986)** — *feminine* → *gender* p. **60**

> feminine See GENDER.

> gender A human and, therefore, a culturally influenced classification of the sexes as masculine and feminine. Jung often spoke and wrote as if he were unaware of the distinction between gender and SEX…

(Samuels, Shorter, & Plaut, 1986, p. **60**)

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## 5\. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

> (a) Hypertrophy of the Maternal Element.—We have noted that in the daughter the mother-complex leads either to a hypertrophy of the feminine side or to its atrophy. The exaggeration of the feminine side means an intensification of all female instincts, above all the maternal instinct.  
> (Jung, 1938/1968, CW 9i, ¶167)

> … woman’s consciousness is characterized more by the connective quality of Eros than by the discrimination and cognition associated with Logos… anima corresponds to the maternal Eros…  
> (Jung, 1951/1959, CW 9ii, p. 14, ¶29)

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**See also:** [anima](https://www.descentpress.com/index/anima/); [animus](https://www.descentpress.com/index/animus/); [eros](https://www.descentpress.com/index/eros/); [logos](https://www.descentpress.com/index/logos/); [mother-complex](https://www.descentpress.com/index/mother-complex/); [persona](https://www.descentpress.com/index/persona/).

## References

Jung, C. G. (1959). The syzygy: Anima and animus. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), *The collected works of C. G. Jung* (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (Vol. 9, Pt. 2, p. 14, ¶29). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1951)

Jung, C. G. (1968). Psychological aspects of the mother archetype. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), *The collected works of C. G. Jung* (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (2nd ed., Vol. 9, Pt. 1, ¶167). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1938)

Samuels, A., Shorter, B., & Plaut, F. (1986). *A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis*. Routledge.

Sharp, D. (1991). *Jung lexicon: A primer of terms & concepts*. Inner City Books.