anima

I mean that she endows objects and animals with anima, the breath of life.

Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations.

They each knew they had found their anima gemella, Italian for soul mate, on their first date at Parallutti e Vino, an Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side in New York.

Williams said he was “talking about what Carl Jung talked about, the anima-animus: the anima being the female counterpart of the male self, animus.”

And anima means that is the female counterpart of the male self, and the animus is the male counterpart of the female.