here is a great deal of tension between the two sexes in modern Western culture as a result of the rapid transition of women from a position entirely subordinate to that of men, to a position of near total equality in a matter of several decades—a drop in the bucket on the evolutionary timeline. This in turn has led to, in many cases, a harbored resentment on behalf of men especially whose states-of-mind are trapped in the “good old days” of when women were more tractable. This concept is of course very much false in terms of social justice and equality, but still leads to a distorted anima in the male Psyche of some. Their distorted anima may lead them to see women as usurpers of power and thus create a Complex of resentment, which can thus lead to domestic abuse and other forms of female degradation. Another example of a distorted anima which may lead to inter-sexual aggression involves the scenario of a male child who grows up watching his father beat and/or verbally abuse his mother. The child’s perception of women will be that of a person worthy only of punishment and abuse, and thus this will become his anima. This is often equated to the “vicious cycle” of domestic abuse, as father’s who are abusive to women will more often than not have children who are abusive, and this is the reason why. The distortion of the anima can also work in reverse. A female can develop a distorted animus through similar avenues and also undertake a life in which she has no respect for the thoughts, feelings, or rights of the opposite sex, although it seems much rarer a phenomenon than it actually is.ConclusionsAlthough the degree of aggressiveness among human beings has yet to be attributed to any particular locus in the human genome, it is possible to make some very convincing and even accurate assumptions based on the theories of Freud and Jung. It is highly doubtful that in any lifetime that aggressiveness ...
