![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The phenomenon occurs whether the mask is martial as in Othello’s case or intellectual as in Hamlet’s. Jung emphasizes this compensatory relationship between persona and anima by stressing that a man’s identification with a masculine “mask” determines the degree to which “he is delivered over to influences from within,” specifically “feminine weakness … for it is the anima that reacts to the persona.” Furthermore: “Everything that should normally be in the outer attitude, but is conspicuously absent, will invariably be found in the inner attitude. Moods, vagaries, timidity, even a limp sexuality (culminating in impotence) gradually gain the upper hand. Outwardly an effective and powerful role is played, while inwardly an effeminate weakness develops in face of every influence coming from the unconscious. ![]() This explains why it is just those very virile men who are most subject to characteristic weaknesses their attitude to the unconscious has a womanish weakness and impressionability. ![]() The more masculine his outer attitude is, the more his feminine traits are obliterated: instead, they appear in his unconscious. ![]()
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