“ANIMA” in italiano

Elaine would be his anima , the feminine version or aspect of him.

Jung postulates that each individual has both masculine and feminine components of the psyche. For a male the feminine component is the anima , and for a female it is the animus.

The anima is the Jungian concept of the female image within the male, which acts as a mediating force between the ego and the unconscious.

Should art - high or low - only inspire the animus, not the anima ?

Jung called the persona the "outward face" of the psyche because it is that face which the world sees. The "inward face" he called the anima in males and the animus in females.