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The most characteristic manifestation of the animus is not in a configured image (Gcstalf) but rather in words (logos also means word). lt comes to us as a voice commenting every situation in which we find ourselves, or imparting generally applicable rules of behavior. Often this is how we first perceive the animus to be different from the ego, long before it has crystallized into a personal figure. As far as I have observed, this voice expresses itself chiefly in two ways. First, we hear from it a critical, usually negative comment on every movement, an exact examination of all motives and intentions, which naturally always causes feelings of inferiority, and tends to nip in the bud all initiative and every wish for self-expression.

From time to time, this same voice may also dispense exaggerated praise, and the result of these extremes of judgment is that one oscillates to an fro between the consciousness of complete futility and a blown-up sense of one's own value and importance. The animus' second way of speaking is confined more or less exclusively to issuing commands or prohi-bitions, and to pronouncing generally accepted viewpoints. (Emma Jung - On the Nature of the Animus, translation by Cary Baynes).