Analysis of Anima and its Effect on the Individuality and Success of Amir Hoshang Ebtehaj in Ghazal

The lover is the manifestation of anime in lyrical literature, especially sonnets. Its terrestrial image is a representation of the heterosexual element of bisexual man, and its celestial appearance corresponds to gods and goddesses, i.e. saturated image of a strange creature that is transcendental, primal, eternal, and God-like, with infinite beauty and kindness, being a nurse and a collection of all goodness. It subconsciously adapts to a mixture of aesthetic criteria of all eras and all human races. Anima is one of the most fundamental archetypes of Jung's collective unconscious, playing a fundamental role in the development of male personality, the feminine half in men, which because of the patriarchal system’s considerations is generally repressed, prevented from expressing themselves, unaware that everything we suppress is not extinguished but, rather, erupts with more energy from the subconscious at an inappropriate time and form. To prevent anima’s eruption, a man needs to learn how to strive in relation to the female half and have it engaged in a life of self-awareness, so that he can enjoy its gifts for its flourishing and transcendence. The present research employs a descriptive-analytical and statistical method to study the correspondence of "anima" archetype on the sonnets of Houshang Ebtehaj that were in harmony and capable of interpreting anime. The extent of his success is directly related to his efforts to identify the feminine element of the psyche. But it seems that the poet has not been successful in a stable relationship with the female element. While in the majority of his sonnets he has overcome the negative anime, in some of the others he has more or less gone through the unevenness of individuality..