Anima - feminine aspect - the inner feminine part of the male personality or a man's image of a woman.

Animus - male aspect - an inner masculine part of the female personality or a woman's image of a man.

- " typical or recurring image, character, narrative design, theme, or other literary phenomenon that has been in literature from the beginning and regularly reappears"

Archetype

Frye sees archetypes as recurring patterns in literature; in contrast, Jung views archetypes as primal, ancient images/experience that we have inherited

Collective Unconscious - "a set of primal memories common to the human race, existing below each person's conscious mind" (Jung)

Water: birth-death-resurrection; creation; purification and redemption; fertility and growth.

Water: birth-death-resurrection; creation; purification and redemption; fertility and growth.

Sea/ocean: the mother of all life; spiritual mystery; death and/or rebirth; timelessness and eternity.

Sea/ocean: the mother of all life; spiritual mystery; death and/or rebirth; timelessness and eternity.

Rivers:

death and rebirth (baptism); the flowing of time into eternity; transitional phases of the life cycle. . . .

Sun (fire and sky are closely related): creative energy; thinking, enlightenment, wisdom, spiritual vision

Rising sun: birth, creation, enlightenment.

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Red: blood, sacrifice, passion;

disorder.

growth, hope, fertility. growth, hope, fertility.

Blue: highly positive; secure; tranquil; spiritual purity

White: light, purity,innocence, timelessness;

[negative: death, terror, supernatural]

Serpent (snake, worm):

symbol of energy and pure force (libido); evil, corruption, sensuality, destruction.

Numbers:

3 - light, spiritual awareness, unity (the Holy Trinity); male principle.

associated with the circle, life cycle, four seasons; female principle, earth, nature, elements.

associated with the circle, life cycle, four seasons; female principle, earth, nature, elements.

- the most potent of all symbolic numbers signifying the union of three and four, the completion of a cycle, perfect order, perfect number; religious symbol.

- the most potent of all symbolic numbers signifying the union of three and four, the completion of a cycle, perfect order, perfect number; religious symbol.

Wise old Man: savior, redeemer, guru, representing knowledge, reflection, insight, wisdom, intuition, and morality.

Garden: paradise, innocence, unspoiled beauty

Garden: paradise, innocence, unspoiled beauty

Tree: denotes life of the cosmos; growth; knowledge;proliferation; symbol of immortality; phallic symbol.

Desert: spiritual aridity; death; hopelessness.

rebirth; genre/comedy.

Summer - life; genre/romance.

Fall - death/dying; genre/tragedy.

Winter - without life/death; genre/irony.

Freud's symbolism/archetypes:

Concave images (ponds, flowers, cups, vases, hollows): female or womb symbols.

Phallic symbols (towers, mountain peaks, snakes, knives, swords, etc.) male symbols