Putting the animus into a test tube or cauldron is the beginning of the alchemical procedure; the imprisonment is for the purpose of transformation. The animus is stripped of his world, for when a thing is in a test tube …external influences are are excluded and the thing remains undisturbed inside. When the animus cannot get out into the external atmosphere, he has no object and then he has time to transform. The main point in this transformation is that one takes objects away from those animus devils. They only have objects if you allow yourself to indulge in something.

Jung

Obviously if desirousness is the meeting point of all great religions, we can be sure it comes close to being the very crux in human nature. This is probably the most difficult emotion of all to forego. Renunciation-though an absolutely necessary stage in human development, has in the long-run proven to be too one-sided.

Barbara Hannah

When you indulge in desirousness, whether your desire is towards heaven or hell, you give the anima or animus an object; then they are extroverted into the world, not within so the thing that ought to be of the night is of the day, and the thing that should be under your feet is on top of you. But when you can say: Yes, I desire it, yet I do not indulge in it; I will make up my mind to have it, I will try to get it, or if I make up my mind to renounce it, I shall renounce it; if your conscious attitude is such, then there is no chance for the anima or animus. But if you are drawn by your own desires, naturally you are possessed.

Jung

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