In this paper, the effect of mother complex on woman's psychology and the animus in woman's unconscious is reviewed from the viewpoint of Jungian psychology. Woman's psychology is founded on the principles of eros that could be expressed in
modern
terms
as psychic relatedness, whereas the ruling principles ascribed to man is logos that means objective interest and logical thinking.
In the daughter, the mother complex leads either to a hypertrophy of her feminine side or to its atrophy. The more a woman is unconscious of her own mother complex, the more destructive effects it exerts.
Another important archetype of female psychology is animus, the masculine trait in all women's unconscious. A woman possesed by the animus is always in danger of losing her femininity. Her adapted feminine persona, and of having difficult sexual
problems. But if a woman tries to be conscious of her own animus problems in the process of individuation. The animus could be her helpful spiritual leader.
Just as a man brings forth his work as a complete creation out of his inner feminine nature, so the inner masculine side of a woman brings forth creative seeds which have the power to fertilize the feminine side of the man.
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