Feminine

1. Etymology

Feminine in Sharp’s lexicon is a cross-reference cluster: see anima, eros, and logos. Samuels redirects feminine to gender—cultural classification of sexes as masculine and feminine, distinct from biological sex.

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 as life-archetype and contrasexual soul-image in a man; eros as relatedness-principle often (not exclusively) paired with woman’s psychology; 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 / eros / 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.

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.

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)

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)

See also: anima; animus; eros; logos; mother-complex; 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.