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So today we're doing a lecture on anima

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and animus. So anima and animus are

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archetypes. They are yungian archetypes.

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And we'll explain what that is in a

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second. There's stuff floating around in

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our subconscious. Okay. But someone

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asked a brilliant question which is are

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yungian archetypes too abstract to apply

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clinically? And my answer to that

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question was basically yes. So in

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preparation of this lecture okay which

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I'll just tell you a little bit about

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how I came on to this lecture. So we did

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a lecture on pueris which like cracked

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something open in this community. It's

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one of our most successful like set of

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lectures. People were like holy crap

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this is me. And then what I noticed is

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that there's like a lot of problem with

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like dating and mating, right? People

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are struggling to connect. That's why we

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made the guide to love, sex, and

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relationships. And there's like

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something deeper going on here. There's

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like something going on at a at a very

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deep level in society that is making it

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hard for human beings to connect. So I

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was reading this set of essays by I

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think Emma Jung on anima and animus and

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I was like holy crap this is describing

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like almost perfectly what we are

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experiencing. Okay I'm going to just

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show you guys real quick. So as long as

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the projection succeeds that is as long

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it's the image corresponds to a certain

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degree with the bear uh I have to

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explain this. So the person someone

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asked in chat is this too abstract for

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clinical stuff and that's my

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frustration. So when I was preparing for

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this lecture, I asked a bunch of people.

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I was like, "Hey, do you guys like have

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any texts about Yian archetypes that are

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clinical that show like how does this

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show up in someone?" Because most of the

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stuff on Yian archetypes is not

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clinical. It's like fairy tale analysis.

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They're like, "Oh, we can see this

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archetype represented in this fairy

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tale." And if you look at like, you

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know, the Christian mythology theology

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of like the Virgin Mary, like what is

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this? The Virgin Mary is the ultimate

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archetype. The Virgin Mary is someone

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who is a perfect mother, but she remains

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pure. She's not been defiled by a sexual

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act. She is virginal in her purity, and

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she is a mother. She's like this

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fundamental contradiction of pure purity

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and pure motherhood. So, this is what I

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would find. And I was like, but hold on

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a second. There's something going on

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here where like men and women are

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struggling. We're having all kinds of

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problems. Okay? And like something is

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going on here, but I don't know how to

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apply this. So part of the reason I part

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of the reason that we rescheduled the

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lecture is like what I've tried to do is

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break down animean animus in a clinical

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way because I'm a clinician. So I'm not

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a yian psychoanalysis analyst. I am a

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old school psychiatrist who does

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psychotherapy and psychoarm and

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meditation all this kind of stuff. So

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basically today what we're going to try

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to do is explain what the archetypes

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are. So first what is archetype and then

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we're going to explain what anima and

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animus is. But we're also going to look

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at the problems of a disconnected enema

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and a disconnected animus. And then

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we're going to talk about possession by

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the animma and animus. And each of these

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has a clinical picture like a clinical

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presentation. Then we're going to talk

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about how the animus affects us

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relationally. So if I have problems with

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my anime and animus, it is going to

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affect the relationships that I form.

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Okay? So just to give y'all a quick

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example, let me find this real quick.

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Here's an example. Okay? It derives its

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authority from its connection with the

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universal mind. But the force of

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suggestion it exercises is due to the

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woman's own pacivity in thinking and her

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corresponding lack of critical ability.

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Such opinions or concepts usually

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brought out with great applam especially

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characteristic of the animus. They are

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generally valid concepts or truths which

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though they may be quite true in

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themselves do not fit in the given cir

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instance because they fail to consider

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what is individual and specific in a

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situation. Readymade incontrovertible

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valid judgments of this kind are really

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only applicable in mathematics where 2 *

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2 is always four. The same sort of

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unrelated thinking also appears in a man

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when he is identified with the reason or

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logos principle and does not himself

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think but lets it think. Such men are

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naturally especially well suited to the

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embodied of the animus in the in a

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woman. Okay, I know that's kind of like

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a random thing but what I want you all

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to pay attention to is they're talking

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about something called animous

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possession. an inanimous possession.

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What happens in this person's mind is

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they come up with these factory produced

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styles of thinking and they trot them

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out. Here are these truths based on

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mathematical principles but there's no

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room for individuality. This is a sign

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of animous possession. Okay. And this is

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like a book that was written by Emma

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Jung like a hundred years ago. Okay. So

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can you guys think of in dating and

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mating do we have a situation where

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people are trotting out universal truths

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as if they are mathematics that remove

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all individuality from the equation?

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Okay. Are we pretending like things that

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are individual and highly variable are

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actually scientific not even scientific

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mathematical proofs? This is a sign of

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animous possession. This is something

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that Emma Yung talked about almost a

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hundred years ago. She's like by the way

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there's this pattern. Okay. And it's

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because of this that I think that

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animean animus is so so so important to

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talk about. And then finally, we're

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going to talk about constellating which

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is how we fix it. Okay. This is what

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we're going to cover today. So let's

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start with the basic. What is an

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archetype? Jung noticed something kind

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of interesting. He noticed that if you

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go across cultures, there are these

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primitive things in our unconscious mind

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which are universal across cultures. So

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it's like this is kind of interesting,

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right? because we're all conditioned by

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our environment. But what he noticed is

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that there's this fundamental masculine

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thing in our unconscious. This is what

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he called the animus. And the animus is

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that which deals with the external

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world. So it's externally oriented, is

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logical, is like motivated to

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accomplish. It is fundamentally the way

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that a human being. So he like looked

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across cultures and he was like okay

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there's this basic thing that some human

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beings or not not some all human beings

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have the capacity to deal with the

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external world and dealing with the

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external world involves a set of skills

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right it's interpreting information it's

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some amount of analysis it's building

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things in the outside world it's shaping

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the outside world it's inter interacting

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with the outside world it's logical so

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he kind of lumped these things together

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and he said you know what this is what

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we're going to call the masculine

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principle because if you Look at men

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especially in Jung's time right men are

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people who go out and they build things

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they shape the external world they build

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tree houses they don't talk about their

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feelings that is what the work of men

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okay then what he also noticed is that

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there was an internal principle as well

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there is an inner sense of being a sense

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of feeling a sense of connection a sense

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of relation not shaping but relating

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connecting and he's like these are these

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two lumps of stuff one is an internal

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orientation and One is an external

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orientation and because the society was

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very gendered in that time people

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associated masculinity with external

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stuff with accomplishment with logic and

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women are emotions feeling internal

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relational connection. But this is

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really important to understand what Jung

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said is that these are not male and

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female. They're masculine and feminine.

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Loneliness is at an all-time high.

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Sexlessness is at an all-time high.

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relationships are probably in the worst

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state they've ever been in the history

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of humanity. And that's why I made Dr.

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K's guide to love, sex, and

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relationships. Let's talk about who you

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should actually date. Falling in love is

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sometimes one of the biggest mistakes

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that you can make. You know, I started

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have like really good sex. Visit

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mother. Y'all are going to need it. So,

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every human being has both of these

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qualities. These are primitive parts of

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our unconscious mind. If you look at any

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human being on the planet, there's a

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part of us that wants to shape and

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interact with the external world. And

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there is a part of us that has an inner

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sense of being, feeling, aliveness, and

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connection. This is what he called

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animus. And this is what he called. Now,

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back in the day, animus and anima mapped

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on more to men and women. So we used to

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live in highly gendered societies where

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men were more animisoriented and women

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were more animoriented. Okay. So each of

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us okay so man or woman both of us have

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animus and animus is external logical

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accomplishment driven challenging okay

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and anima is internal feeling connecting

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being nurturing. And he sort of said

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okay every human being on the planet has

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these two qualities and these are

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archetypal things. So what is an

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archetype? It is a very deeprooted

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pattern that lives in our unconscious.

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So if you look at your life you have a

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part of you that is externally oriented

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a part of you that is internally

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oriented. You have a part of you that is

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logical a part of you that is feeling.

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literally like now this remember this is

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like Jung okay so this is around the

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year 1900 like 120 years ago let's say I

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think it was around around 1900 okay and

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now like back then they didn't know that

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there was left brain and right brain

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right they didn't know that there was

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the amygdala feeling portion of our

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brain and there was like the logical

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portion of our brain the analytical

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portion of our brain that language is

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over here on the left in Broca's area

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and Waricki's area right and there's

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some emotional circuits over on the

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right so our lyic system is is more

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right brain. They didn't know that

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stuff, but they just observed it. They

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sort of noticed. Okay. And then Jung

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also Emma Yung really did a lot of this

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work. So then what they noticed is every

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person has an animma and every person

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has an animus. And what we want is a

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healthy balance between the two. We want

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an integration between these two things.

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Is that my life is a balance of going

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out and accomplishing things in the

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world and being one with myself. That I

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have logic and I have emotion. But then

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what happens in some people is one of

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the forces the forces can become

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imbalanced and this is where the

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abstraction becomes clinical. Okay. So

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we can disconnect from one. So there are

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some people who are disconnected from

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their animus. So as a human being I have

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an animus and I have an animma. And if I

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get disconnected from one what happens

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is the other one kind of becomes

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dominant. So I can have a life where I'm

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way too emotional, way too internally

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focused. I don't deal with the vagaries

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of the external world, man. All those

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plebs who are always like out there

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working deadend jobs and clawing out a

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pathetic living in life, right? All

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these dirty people out there who are

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trying to claw out some kind of lowme,

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no, I'm more grand. I'm not going to I'm

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not going to debase myself to join the

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rat race of the normal world, the

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external world. I'm going to be

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philosophical. I'm going to be

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intellectual. I'm going to be follow the

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deeper things, the spiritual things to

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pierce the veil of reality to understand

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the metaphysical nature of the world. I

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will not I'm not going to actually go

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get a PhD in physics and do math

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problems. I'm going to contemplate

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quantum mechanics and synchronicity on

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Reddit, right? I'm not going to engage

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with this dirty oh my god like I have to

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fill out applications and fill out

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surveys and get my oh my god I'm not

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going to do that right do you see how

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these people are they they are not able

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to engage with the external world but we

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also have cases of animus and

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disconnected these are people who are

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not connected to their inner being in

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the same way I ain't going to deal with

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feelings facts don't give a f about your

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feelings feelings are useless. Feelings

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are are low. Feelings are pathetic. I'm

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going to focus on mathematics. I'm going

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to focus on ROI. I'm going to focus on

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analysis. This is how you succeed in the

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external world. No one gives a crap how

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you feel. Feelings are to be conquered.

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They're to be severed. I'm going to use

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drugs. I'm going to use steroids. I'm

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going to go out there. I'm gonna have

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[ __ ] I'm have cars. I'm going to be

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big on the outside. That is where

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success lies. This being content with

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yourself on the inside, being able to

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feel, being a a [ __ ] who focuses on

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nurturing and feeling. Oh my god, how

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pathetic is that? Sound familiar, right?

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Oh, no, no, but someone's saying, I I I

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was about to say true until he said

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drugs and steroids. But think about it.

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Drugs are the ultimate way to deal with

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internal feeling. They're our way of

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exerting control. I what I feel on the

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inside is is not worth anything. I just

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need it to stop. So, give me a little

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bit of that vitamin K. Let me roll up to

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Wall Street in my job as an investment

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banker. I'm going to go down from the

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68th floor of the building that I'm in

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on Wall Street. I'm going to go into the

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mobile ketamine clinic, which is a bus

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that parks outside of my building and

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I'm going to get in injected with

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vitamin K. Okay, you guys understand?

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And by the way, I'm going to show you

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all some some cool quotes, okay, of both

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of these things and it's going to be

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hilarious. So this is a lopsided animus

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and this is a lopsided anima where we

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disconnect from a part of ourselves. And

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this Jung Emma Yung and um and uh Carl

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Jung both said that both of these are

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fundamentally unhealthy. You won't be a

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healthy human being. But there's another

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thing that can happen. So this is called

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disconnection and this manifests in a

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particular clinical way. Okay? Clinical

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in the sense of like shows up in a human

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being not in the sense of like

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diagnosis. This is the picture which I

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sort of modeled for you all. Okay? And

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oh yeah when Dr. K says, "Oh my god, I

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think anima and animus is so helpful in

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in us understanding things. This is not

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me making these connections." Okay, this

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is me just using the current version,

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but we will literally see versions of

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this. Then something weird happens.

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There's something called possession. So

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this is when we have thema and animus.

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Let's say I am say animma sucks. I'm all

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animus. But then something weird

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happens. This part of our unconscious,

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we can try to bury it, but it is like a

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fundamental part of us. We can't really

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get rid of it. No matter how much I

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think that emotions are dumb, right?

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Emotions are useless. Emotions are a

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waste of my time. Facts don't care about

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your feelings. At the end of the day, I

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still have a lyic system. That part of

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my brain is like there. And similarly in

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my mind, which is different from the

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brain, right? In my mind, there is a

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part of me that is nurturing. There is a

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part of me that is inner no matter how

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much I try to make it go away. So then

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something weird happens. Thema actually

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possesses the animus and this becomes a

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puppeteer. Okay. So what does this mean?

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This means that on the outside I appear

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to be very logical. I appear to be very

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analytical but behind my logic and

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behind my analysis emotions actually

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control me. I become highly sensitive to

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criticism because internally I can't

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handle it. I need to prove them wrong. I

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become highly sensitive or not sensitive

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paranoid to manipulation. I'm worried

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about people always manipulating me. I'm

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I'm paranoid about people manipulating

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me. Why? Because I don't I'm not

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anchored in myself. So what I discover

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and these people the people who are

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possessed are hyper analytical,

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hyperlogical, but they're incredibly

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moody. They're actually like, you know,

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when we talk about the fragile masculine

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ego, like look at this alpha who's like

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got a bunch of money and got a bunch of

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muscles and all this kind of stuff, but

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like you're like, "Yeah, man. You're

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pathetic, bro." And they're like,

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they can't tolerate. They pick fights

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with middle-aged dudes who have three

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loving kids on the internet and try to

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flex on them. They have to put everyone

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in their place. They're actually

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incredibly emotional creatures. They're

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very unstable. They do things like get

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up and walk out of interviews because

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they can't tolerate a conversation.

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They're incredibly emotional, but

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they're the last to realize it, right?

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They go picking ego fights because, oh,

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hold on a second. But you have all this

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money, you have all this fame, you have

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all of this stuff, you have all these

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big muscles. Why are you picking a fight

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with a random dude who's got three kids?

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Like, what? Why are you doing that? And

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they don't have a good answer for it.

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They're like, oh yeah, like I'm doing it

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for fun. Wait, hold on a second. What

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about that is fun? They don't know

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because they're not connected to their

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inner being. So thema actually puppets

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their animus. Their feeling actually

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drives their analytical thinking. Okay.

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Then we have animus possession. We're

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lpping off our analytical portion. And

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so this part of us that tries to

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control, tries to restrain, tries to get

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the world to conform. Remember this is

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external and this is internal. So these

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people too, their animus starts

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controlling theirma. So in the case of

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animous possession, we see a different

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kind of picture. So you can sort of

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think about someone who is like a woman

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who has severed off all of her feeling

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and has become hyperanimous. So this is

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a person who when when we get animus

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possessed this is someone who lives in

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the realm of fantasy. So they can't do

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anything in the outside world but that

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drive to do things in the outside world

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infects their internal world. So these

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are people who h build castles in their

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mind. They're highly theoretical. Their

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desire to create, their desire to

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analyze, their desire to accomplish in

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the external world gets flowed into

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their imagination because they're

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they're too stuck, right? Theirma

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shifted. So they're shifted internally.

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So all of their external drive manifests

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internally. So they build up idealized

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versions of themsel. They have a

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beautiful example of the perfect version

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of themsel. They have this logical idea

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of the perfect self, but that perfect

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self lives within them. The perfect self

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cannot grapple with the muddiness of the

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outside world. Okay? Then we get to the

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relational component. But I think I'm

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going to explain some of this stuff.

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When we're disconnected from our

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animist, when we're disconnected from

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our feeling portion, so anima

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disconnection started to happen a lot

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with feminism. Not me saying this, it's

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Emma Yung saying this. So there used to

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be a period of time where men did one

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thing and women did another thing and

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then a couple of fundamental things

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changed in the world. So Emma Yung talks

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about this. So one of the animous

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activities most difficult to see through

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lies in in this field namely the

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building up of a wish image of oneself.

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The animus is expert at sketching in and

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making a plausible picture that

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represents us as we would like to be

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seen. the ideal lover, the selfless

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handmaiden, the extraordinarily original

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person, right? Which is now being

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intersected with the sick of fancy of

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AI, which is now telling you, AI is now

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telling you, yeah, you are

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extraordinarily original. Your ideas are

18:52

revolutionizing quantum mechanics. This

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is quantum biology, bro. You're really

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breaking barriers that no one else has

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broken. And this person is spending

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their time, are they spending their time

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in the external world? No. This is the

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animus being filtered through their

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internal being. Other examples are a

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largely retrospectively

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oriented pondering of what we ought to

19:13

have done differently in life and how we

19:16

ought to have done it or as if under

19:17

compulsion we make up strings of causal

19:20

connections. We like to call this

19:22

thinking though on the contrary it is a

19:24

form of mental activity that is

19:26

strangely pointless and unproductive. A

19:29

form that really leads only to self

19:31

torture. Here too there is again a

19:33

caristic characteristic failure to

19:35

discriminate between what is real and

19:38

what has been thought or imagined. Boom.

19:40

Here we go. Animous possession written

19:43

by Emma Jung 100 years ago. She's like

19:46

here's what the pattern is. This faculty

19:48

of thinking is not being put out into

19:52

the world. The faculty of thinking is

19:54

being pulled internally. And these

19:56

people just [ __ ] chew on these

19:58

thoughts. They're really good at

20:00

analyzing. Oh my god, they analyze so

20:03

much but they analyze in the past. They

20:05

form all of these complex theories and

20:08

it never translates out into the

20:10

external world. They are stuck inside

20:12

themselves. This is the animous

20:15

possessing thema. Okay, that's the

20:17

example. We're going to start with

20:18

feminism for a moment. Okay, and this is

20:20

not like please don't God don't think

20:22

like I'm anti-feminism. Let's

20:24

understand. We really got to understand

20:25

this. Okay, I wasn't going to include

20:26

this originally because I didn't want

20:28

people to get triggered, but this is

20:29

important. So yeah, I don't want to get

20:30

cancelceled, but we got to understand.

20:31

So we as human beings have these

20:33

psychological like parts of us, right?

20:35

Like so every human being has the desire

20:37

to make themselves known in the external

20:40

world and has the desire to like be good

20:43

internally. Like this is fundamental.

20:44

And then what happened is these internal

20:47

psychological drives manifested in a

20:50

particular way. So for like a 100,000

20:52

years of evolution, human beings lived

20:54

in a particular society. So our brain

20:57

and our psychological drives evolved

20:59

with the society. Then what happened is

21:01

society changed and as society changed

21:05

these psychological drives no longer fit

21:07

normally with the world that we live in.

21:09

And so Emma Yung noticed that in her

21:12

patients something was going on with

21:14

their relationship between their animus

21:18

was getting messed up by advances in

21:21

society. Now this is really important to

21:23

understand. She is not saying and I

21:25

don't think Marie Louise von France

21:27

doesn't believe this. Emma Yung doesn't

21:29

believe this. I don't believe this. This

21:30

is not good or bad. This does not imply

21:33

that we should have stayed in the old

21:35

way. So what Emma Yung talks about is

21:38

she says that there are three causes for

21:40

animous animma problems for women. The

21:42

first is that we used to rely on

21:45

religion to give us a sense of like

21:47

inner being and help us connect with our

21:49

internal self. As religions started to

21:52

decline, we no longer had a clear way to

21:55

connect with our spiritual selves. Okay.

21:57

Second big re thing that changed a lot

22:00

for women changed drastically for women

22:02

is birth control. So a huge part of what

22:06

a women's psychology had to be oriented

22:09

towards is like to breed or not to

22:11

breed. That is the question cuz medical

22:13

care was not great at that time. Infant

22:15

mortality is really bad. Even today

22:17

statistically the most dangerous thing

22:18

that the average woman will do in her

22:20

life is get pregnant and bear a child.

22:23

Most dangerous thing that you'll ever

22:24

do. So a lot of our psychology was

22:27

wrapped up into this question which now

22:29

suddenly we have freedom over. And the

22:30

third thing is technology. So there were

22:32

many tasks. So for example, Jung talks

22:34

about you know there are many tasks for

22:36

which the woman previously applied her

22:38

inventiveness and creative spirit right

22:40

where she formerly blew up the

22:41

hearthfire and thus still accomplished a

22:43

Prometheian act. today she just turns a

22:45

gas plug or electrical switch and has no

22:47

inkling of what she sacrifices by these

22:49

practical novelties. Okay. Basically

22:51

what what she's kind of pointing out is

22:53

if you look at like let's say a woman a

22:56

thousand years ago or 2,000 years ago

22:58

the drive to be inventive, the drive to

23:01

be creative was in some way satisfied by

23:04

the way that they took care of their

23:05

household. Right? To make order out of

23:07

chaos and engage with the external

23:08

world, I had to keep my house in order.

23:10

And a good example of like a

23:12

well-integrated animous woman is what I

23:15

think of as like a matriarch. So she's

23:17

not someone who is just dealing with

23:18

feelings. She's dealing with

23:19

practicalities. So I remember when my

23:21

grandmother was when she had young kids

23:23

in India, there was rationing going on.

23:25

So she would get an aotment of sugar

23:27

that was really expensive. She couldn't

23:29

buy more. And so she had to use her

23:31

analytical capability to make sure that

23:34

the sugar lasted through the month. She

23:36

had to be very analytical, very

23:38

externally oriented. She also had to

23:40

account for the fact that my grandfather

23:42

was not good with money. So her animus

23:44

was very represented. It got some it had

23:47

stuff to do. And so with the creation of

23:49

technology, right? So what happened is

23:51

then suddenly like the stuff that women

23:53

used to do is no longer that big of a

23:55

deal. So then where does their external

23:57

drive go? And this is where she also

23:59

observes a couple of things. Okay, which

24:01

is for everything not done in the

24:02

traditional way will be done in a new

24:04

way. And that is not altogether simple.

24:06

There are many women who when they have

24:07

reached the place where they are

24:08

confronted by the the intellectual

24:10

demands say I would rather have another

24:12

child in order to escape or at least

24:14

postpone the uncomfortable and

24:16

disturbing demand. So this is important

24:18

to understand. This is like I I want you

24:19

all to be really careful about what this

24:21

means and what this doesn't mean. So

24:22

what Jung is saying is that look if

24:24

there used to be something done a

24:25

particular way and we just take that

24:27

away it's not such an easy problem to

24:29

solve. And some women will avoid their

24:32

intellectual engagement by retreating

24:35

into just being an oven for babies. And

24:37

Jung says this will cause you a ton of

24:39

problems in life. You have a fundamental

24:42

psychological need to engage in the

24:45

outside world to accomplish things in

24:47

the outside world and society was so

24:49

simple that you used to be able to

24:51

satisfy that. And just having children

24:54

is a way to run away from the

24:56

intellectual demand. And remember, Yung

24:58

is this like a 100 years ago, right? So

24:59

she's like maybe 1920s, maybe 1930s,

25:01

maybe 1950s. And she was saying, okay,

25:03

there are a lot of women who just want

25:04

to have kids. That's fine. But some

25:06

women choose to have an additional child

25:10

instead of grapple with this. What am I

25:13

going to do with my IQ? How am I going

25:15

to feel accomplished in life? And they

25:17

will retreat from this challenge by

25:19

having children. Now, notice she's not

25:21

saying that having children is good or

25:22

having children is bad, right? She's

25:24

saying like this is the psychological

25:25

reality that like your brain's got to be

25:27

occupied with something and you can run

25:29

away from it by having kids or you can

25:31

embrace it and have kids. You can try to

25:33

be the best analytically

25:35

accomplishoriented mother that you can.

25:37

Very decent option. This I think is is

25:39

right. Now the reason this becomes

25:40

important is because women used to be in

25:43

the kitchen and then around the time of

25:45

feminism they stopped being in the

25:47

kitchen because there was a decline in

25:48

religion. This is what Jung says. Okay.

25:50

decline in religion, birth control, loss

25:52

of traditional gender roles. So there is

25:54

a new challenge that women have to face

25:57

which is why they started entering the

25:58

workplace. They started becoming more

26:00

masculine. They started balancing the

26:03

animus, right? This was a necessary

26:04

thing that evolved with technology. Now

26:07

the really interesting thing, so if you

26:09

read Emma Yung's words, which we're

26:11

going to go over a ton, I think what I'm

26:12

seeing, which is really interesting, the

26:14

same thing that happened to women 70

26:16

years ago is happening to men today.

26:18

Traditional gender roles for us are now

26:21

disappearing. Men are have a lower

26:23

college metriculation rate, graduation

26:25

rate than women do. We don't make on

26:27

average necessarily more women money

26:29

than women do. We're no longer the

26:31

providers. So it used to be that we used

26:33

to have a well-carved way to get our

26:36

animus and figured out and now that's

26:38

gone for us. So now we're the ones

26:40

spinning in the wind. And just like Emma

26:42

Jung said, they said some women run away

26:45

from the problem of intellectual

26:47

engagement by having more kids. Some men

26:51

run away from the inner problem, getting

26:54

to know myself, getting to connect

26:56

myself by going hard in the other

26:58

direction. I'm just going to make more

27:00

money. I'm just going to make bigger

27:01

muscles. I'm going to just do all this

27:03

stuff as a substitute for the inner

27:04

work. Define inner contentment and

27:06

peace. I'm not actually looking inward.

27:09

what I'm going to do is become the best

27:10

version of me that I can ever be. And

27:13

hopefully, if I accomplish enough

27:15

externally, that'll wrap around and I'll

27:18

be internally content. They're running

27:20

away from the inner work by leaning into

27:23

the external work. Same thing that was

27:25

happening to women 60 or 70 years ago is

27:27

happening to men today, but in a

27:28

different direction. Okay? It's insane,

27:31

guys, how like how prophetic this is.

27:34

And this is the beauty of archetypes is

27:36

that archetypes are deep within us. They

27:39

don't change. The society arounds us

27:41

changes and the way that our archetype

27:44

connects to the society changes and

27:45

creates this lack of connection is what

27:49

creates a lot of our problems. Okay?

27:51

Around this time of disconnection,

27:53

right? So women became a little bit

27:55

disconnected from their their inner

27:57

being, their feeling. So there was like

27:59

sort of a whole scale suppression of

28:01

their feeling, right? We sort of viewed

28:02

and and this is interesting when we talk

28:04

about a patriarchy this becomes relevant

28:06

too because what we did in society is we

28:08

said analysis is better than emotion.

28:11

Logic is superior to emotion. Right? We

28:14

made a fundamental statement that our

28:16

left brain is just better than our right

28:17

brain. To be logically sound is superior

28:20

to becoming emotionally aware. This is

28:23

the overarching like system of our our

28:26

society today. Some people call it the

28:28

patriarchy. And so then what happened is

28:30

women were like, "Okay, if you want to

28:31

be successful, you should become a man.

28:34

You should become a CEO. You should go

28:36

into STEM." And we try to make that more

28:38

accommodating, which I have nothing

28:39

against. But my point is that we're

28:41

still shifting into the masculine being

28:44

superior to the feminine. It is it is

28:46

such a insidious and profound way,

28:49

right? If you ask someone, "Hey, what do

28:51

you want to be when you grow up?" And

28:52

they say, they answer with a job. If you

28:54

say, "What do you want to be when you

28:55

grow up?" Content. Oh my god. You can't

28:57

ever date someone who wants contentment

28:59

in life. Oh my god. Where's the

29:01

ambition, bro? Ambition is superior to

29:03

contentment. To be externally oriented,

29:06

to be grinding every day, to be

29:08

accomplishing more is superior to having

29:10

an inner peace. This is the society that

29:12

we live in. And so since that was the

29:14

attitude, feminism actually followed

29:17

that. If you read into Yung in a

29:19

particular way, right? So, she's like

29:20

she's saying that Marie Luis Von France

29:22

talks about this quite a bit and I'll

29:23

try to find a clip for y'all, but she

29:25

kind of says that, you know, we made the

29:27

masculine the ideal. The masculine way

29:30

of living in the world became superior

29:32

to the feminine way of living in the

29:33

world. Now, remember, I'm not saying

29:34

male or female. I'm saying masculine and

29:36

feminine. The animus became superior to

29:38

the animma. We said logic is better than

29:40

emotion. What's happening on here is not

29:42

as important as what's happening on the

29:43

outside. We made those value judgments.

29:45

And so then what happened when feminism

29:47

rolled around is we had a lot of animma

29:49

suppression in women. We had anima

29:51

disconnection in women. So women became

29:53

some of them became ball busters. They

29:55

became very very like masculine in their

29:58

in their vibe. Right? And we came up

30:00

with a particular term for it which is

30:02

ball busters. And even the men don't

30:04

like it even though the women are just

30:05

doing what the men have always done.

30:07

Right? It's like if this is done by a

30:09

dude it's lauded. If it's done by a

30:11

woman we get all bent out of shape. and

30:13

we come up with a particular term ball

30:15

buster. So this is a sign of anima

30:17

disconnection. People who are

30:18

disconnected from their view feelings as

30:21

impure and thus become anti-impurity

30:24

which becomes a denial of our very own

30:26

instincts. Right? The way that I feel is

30:28

actually like bad and is inferior to the

30:31

way that I think. Now here's what's

30:32

really interesting. Another thing that

30:34

Jung talked about is when we become

30:36

disconnected from we'll just use the

30:38

example of for now. When we become

30:40

disconnected from our inner feeling,

30:42

that part of us still exists and we must

30:44

get it from the outside. Instead of the

30:47

source of our feelings being us, we have

30:49

to get feeling from somewhere. So then

30:50

what happens is we get our feeling from

30:52

the outside. So the absence of

30:53

connection with your own inner being

30:55

means that your emotive manifestation

30:58

needs to come from other places. What

31:00

does Jung talk about? sexual emphasis

31:03

where when we are disconnected from our

31:05

internal emotions, we rely on sex to

31:09

give us feelings literally. And if you

31:11

look at what's going on in the

31:12

manosphere right now, right, there's so

31:14

much stuff about the status of sexual

31:17

conquest. Sex is not just nutting. Sex

31:20

is meaning pride, power, status. Where

31:24

does pride, power, and status, where

31:26

does that exist? It exists within us.

31:28

You say, "No, no, no. status is in the

31:30

outside world. No, it isn't. When I walk

31:33

into a restaurant and they're like, "Oh,

31:35

welcome, Dr. K. We have your table ready

31:37

for you." Status. Is that nice in the

31:40

outside? Yes. But when I walk into the

31:42

restaurant and and I'm like, "Hey, do

31:44

you have my table ready?" And they're

31:45

like, "We're sorry we don't have your

31:46

table ready." Then how do I feel? How

31:49

dare you? Do you know who I am? I'm Dr.

31:51

K. I'm an influencer with 3 million

31:54

followers. I'm one of the most followed

31:55

psychiatrists on the planet. What has

31:58

changed when people don't give me

31:59

status? Internal. Internal has changed.

32:01

When they give me status, what has

32:03

changed? Internal. Look at me. I'm so

32:06

great, bro. Bruh, I'm so great. Look at

32:09

how everyone's everyone's bowing down.

32:11

Everyone's paying respect, man. Come on,

32:13

man. Like, don't you know I'm Dr. K?

32:15

Status is internal. And this is what we

32:17

see when you are disconnected from your

32:19

own inner being. You are dependent on

32:23

the rest of the world to make you feel a

32:25

certain way. That's why I need to get

32:27

laid because if I if I can get laid and

32:29

we [ __ ] hear it. You just pay

32:31

attention to all of the incel, red pill,

32:33

black pill, alpha, whatever. I'm a loser

32:35

because I can't get laid. If I become

32:37

late, hey, should I go see a prostitute

32:39

because then I won't feel like such a

32:40

loser. I went to go see a prostitute and

32:43

now I feel even more like a loser. It's

32:45

all about feeling, feeling, feeling,

32:46

feeling, feeling. And they pretend it

32:48

isn't. This isma disconnection. Sexual

32:51

emphasis to feel a certain way, status,

32:53

power, privilege, whatever. Right? It is

32:55

all actually feeling oriented.

Interactive Summary

This lecture provides a clinical, Jungian-inspired exploration of the anima and animus archetypes. It defines these concepts not as strictly male or female, but as masculine (external, logical) and feminine (internal, relational) principles that every individual possesses. The lecture examines the modern epidemic of loneliness and relationship struggles, attributing them to an imbalance or disconnection from these archetypal components. Dr. K discusses the concepts of 'possession' by these archetypes, where an unacknowledged side of the psyche puppets one's behavior, and addresses how societal shifts—such as the decline of religion, technological advancements, and changing gender roles—have left both men and women struggling to integrate these forces effectively.

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