(12-03-2025, 05:58 PM)stealth blimp Wrote: If women confuse thugs for the true alpha male personality they can't be that dissimilar.
I have no investment in the human species and I'd welcome its extinction. I'm an antinatalist as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism
I am not sure what you are imagining or what expectations you have in your mind about what women want/desire either in a physical relationship (unconscious) vs. psychological relationship.
Perhaps reading a little Jung on this matter may help allay some of the mystery.
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"Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image.
This image is fundamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of primordial origin engraved in the living organic system of the man, an imprint or ‘archetype” of all the ancestral experiences of the female, a deposit, as it were, of all the impressions ever made by woman-in short, an inherited system of psychic adaptation.
Even if no women existed, it would still be possible, at any given time, to deduce from this unconscious image exactly how a woman would have to be constituted psychically.
The same is true of the woman: she too has her inborn image of man. Actually, we know from experience that it would be more accurate to describe it as an image of
men, whereas in the case of the man it is rather the image of
woman.
Since this image is unconscious, it is always unconsciously projected upon the person of the beloved, and is one of the chief reasons for passionate attraction or aversion.
I have called this image the “anima,” and I find the scholastic question
Habet mulier animam? especially interesting, since in my view it is an intelligent one inasmuch as the doubt seems justified. Woman has no anima, no soul, but she has an
animus.
The anima has an erotic, emotional character, the animus a rationalizing one. Hence most of what men say about feminine eroticism, and particularly about the emotional life of women, is derived from their own anima projections and distorted accordingly.
On the other hand, the astonishing assumptions and fantasies that women make about men come from the activity of the animus, who produces an inexhaustible supply of illogical arguments and false explanations.
Anima and animus are both characterized by an extraordinary many-sidedness.
Marriage | Carl Jung: Marriage as a Psychological Relationship
While Jung has some insightfulness here and there but not with whether or not women had souls and other things, he could not maintain a marriage but ended up having a friendship with his ex-wife. So he may not be the best source for how to maintain a psychological (conscious) partnership as in marriage, but he was on to something about our unconscious animus and anima. Basically, expectations need to be explored then brought into reality.