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The past 3 years have not been kind to Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer coming under intense scrutiny following the Boeing 737 MAX groundings and quality control concerns and defects from their Boeing 787 manufacturing facility at Charleston, South Carolina which has lead the US aviation regulator, the Federal Aviation Authority to revoke Boeing's ability to self certify brand new Dreamliners, with it well over a year since the last new delivery.
There is certainly light at the end of the tunnel as the FAA is to approve Boeing's resumption of 787 deliveries following scrutiny of their proposed modification and inspection programme. Prior to resumption, a large portion of Boeing 787s have been built but placed into storage mainly at Victorville, California where Boeing has a maintenance facility, as well as in Charleston, South Carolina and Everett, Washington.
American Airlines in particular has been largely affected by the delayed deliveries as most of its long-haul expansion programme had been largely reliant on the Boeing 787, and the withdrawal of their ageing Boeing 777-200ER fleet put on hold. Following on from the FAA approval to restart deliveries in August 2022, American is expected to be the first carrier to receive their first example and are expected to take delivery of as much as 9 examples in 2022 alone.
Restarting deliveries will come as a sigh of relief for Boeing, albeit the company has had to payout large sums of compensation to airlines for late deliveries.
Currently, American Airlines operates 46 Boeing 787s, which includes 24 Boeing 787-8s and 22 Boeing 787-9s. American Airlines have 12 Boeing 787-8s and 20 Boeing 787-9s on-order.
November Eight Three One Alpha Alpha is one of 22 Boeing 787-9s operated by American Airlines, delivered new to the carrier on 5th October 2017 and she is powered by 2 General Electric GEnx-1B engines.
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner N831AA on short finals into Runway 27L at London Heathrow (LHR) on AA98 from Chicago-O'Hare (ORD), Illinois.
Scientists studying Antarctica have gained new insights into how the world’s biggest ice sheet is reacting to warming sea temperatures. The study uses three decades of radar satellite observations to map changes in grounding lines across the Antarctic continent from 1992 to 2025. It found that grounding lines were stable along more than 77% of Antarctica’s coastline, including major ice shelves such as Ross, Filchner-Ronne and Amery.
However, the research also detected significant retreat in vulnerable regions. These maps zoom in on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and, in particular, around the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, which are two of the most affected regions.
The study is based on data from several satellite missions including Copernicus Sentinel-1 and ERS.
Credits: ESA (data source: Rignot et al, 2026).
Fleet No: "903".
First flown in Aug-19, during the 'MAX' grounding, with the test registration N1786B. This aircraft was stored after first flight. It also carried Boeing test registrations N1799B and N1782B.
It was originally ordered for lease to Jet Airways, India but they had ceased operations in Apr-19. The aircraft was delivered to BOC Aviation Leasing and leased to Flair Airlines as C-FLHI in Jun-21.
It was due for sub-lease to Bonza Airline, Australia as VH-8AV but this was cancelled. Instead it was wet-leased to Bonza in Dec-23 and returned to Flair Airlines in Apr-24. Current, updated 27-Jul-25.
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Gross National Happiness
The Bhutanese grounding in Buddhist ideals suggests that beneficial development of human society takes place when material and spiritual development occur side by side to complement and reinforce each other. The term "gross national happiness", a concept of a quantitative measurement of well-being and happiness, was coined in 1972 by Bhutan's fourth Dragon King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who has opened Bhutan to the age of modernization. The four pillars of gross national happiness are the promotion of sustainable development, preservation and promotion of cultural values, conservation of the natural environment, and establishment of good governance.
In a 2007 study from University of Leicester, Bhutan ranked eighth out of 178 countries in Subjective Well-Being, a metric of happiness that has been used by many psychologists. In fact, it is the only country in the top 20 "happiest" countries that has a very low GDP.
White, A. (2007). A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge to Positive Psychology? Psychtalk 56, 17-20.
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The Mask Culture Of Bhutan
The performance of mask dance is a deeply spiritual affair in Bhutan. Dancers wear masks which may represent fearsome male or female protective deities, animals, skulls, saints and sages, and legendary personages like the manifestations of Guru Rinpoche or just plain human beings.
In Bhutan, mask dances are numerous and have different names according to their types. In few important dzongs, two festivals take place every year: Dromchhoe, which is dedicated to Mahakala (Yeshe Goenpo) and Mahakali (Palden Lhamo) - Bhutan’s two principle protective deities and a Tshechu, the best known and most popular, that is dedicated to Guru.
Both the religious and secular dances prevalent in Bhutan have originated from Buddhism. Beside entertaining people, the dance performances reaffirm the devotion and commitment of human beings to leading morally sound and honest lives. At supreme or ultimate level, it is a spiritual exercise and helps human beings to acquire spiritual merit which serves as the cause for liberation from the earthly woes and gain final enlightenment.
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tails of some of the Heavy Brussels Airlines A330's parked on the south remotes of Brussels Airport due to Covid19 grounding.
BRU, March 2020
Preserved steam locomotive, Class 7, 70013 Oliver Cromwell is making its way to the Great Central Way Railway Quorn station.
Grounding out happens quite often at this location looking the number of scrapes and grooves in the tarmac.
"On 3 March 2018, 70013 hauled its final main line charter from Ealing Broadway to York via the Midland Main Line prior to the expiry of its boiler certificate. It was last steamed at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway on 11 March 2018 before moving to the GCR for storage."
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While Corey Seager gets the barrel on the ball in the second inning, he winds up grounding out to A's second baseman Abraham Toro. This was during the first game of the scheduled doubleheader. I was shooting for the Hobbs News-Sun out of Hobbs, New Mexico.
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Dublin Airport, 04/04/2019.
Operating services for Norwegian due to the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max fleet.
NASA image acquired February 5, 2012
A record-breaking snowstorm struck Colorado in early February 2012, closing an interstate highway, grounding flights, and dropping more than a foot of snow on the Denver area. After moving out of northeastern Colorado, the storm left heavy snow across Nebraska.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on February 5, after skies had largely cleared over the region. Snow and mountain peaks create a mottled appearance in western Colorado. Elsewhere, the snow cover forms a wide, uneven track over parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska.
This snowfall did not break all-time records in Colorado, but it did break records for the month of February. The National Weather Service explained that northeastern Colorado generally experiences storms of this magnitude in March or April, and the February storm showed some of the same characteristics of powerful spring storms, including a system from the Pacific Northwest converging with moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. The storm set a new record for the heaviest storm snowfall for February, depositing 15.9 inches (40.4 centimeters) in Denver, and 22.7 inches (57.7 centimeters) in Boulder.
Colorado ski resorts welcomed the precipitation after suffering from below-normal snow cover so far in the 2011–2012 ski season, but the new snow raised the risk of avalanches. As of February 6, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center reported “considerable” avalanche danger across much of the state.
Heavy snow was not limited to Colorado. The National Weather Service reported up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) of snow west of Omaha, Nebraska.
NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team
Caption by Michon Scott.
Instrument: Aqua - MODIS
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Garden quartz is a powerful grounding stone that is used extensively in healing and meditation work. It is one of the fundamental grounding stones. It is known to be able to establish a clear path to removing negativity by passing it back into the Earth where it can dissipate naturally.
SN/NC: Portulacca Grandiflora, Fam. Portulaccaceae
In Av La Capilla, these beauitiful portulaccas are decorating the street and serve as "revestment" for other flowers of higher sizes. Not so like, so delicate and sleeps until the sun is shining high and go to sleep again around 5 -- like an old cat in a warehouse. A beautiful pair of portulaccas accompanying the pink, orange, yellow and wine color -- also in the street as grounding plant carpet for the taller plants. But always nice, delicate, so beautiful -- and can still be used in salads (edible) and also medicinal (intestines problems).
La famosa verdolaga es bastante usada hoy para fines gastronómicos. También tiene usos medicinales (estreñimiento) además de forrar bien los pisos de plantas mayores. Foto hecha en las Calles de San Benito, San Salvador,
No Brasil, 11 horas... mas também alguns somente a chamam de beldroega..
Dublin Airport, 24/03/2019.
One of two Norwegian Max-8s parked on the west apron after the worldwide grounding of the type on March 12th.
we went to a butterfly garden today and it was so peaceful and serene. my beloved took the kids so I could take a moment and practice my mountain in that setting. I chose this photo for grounding because even though my feet were planted, I tend to find my grounding in my breath. I feel calm and centered when I listen to and truly tune into my breath.
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Valentine & Sons of Dundee were Scotland’s most successful commercial photographers. In the early 1900s, at the height of the postcard craze, they published cards showing scenes from a number of countries, including the U.K., Canada, Australia, South Africa and the United States of America.
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Princess May was a steamship built in 1888 which was operated under a number of different names and owners. The ship is best known for having been involved in a grounding in 1910 which left the ship jutting completely out of the water, which became the subject of a famous shipwreck photograph.
This ship, although it served under other names, is best known as the Princess May. The Canadian Pacific had a fleet of ocean-going ships with names beginning with “Empress". It was decided that the planned fleet of coastal liners (which in 1901 did not yet exist) would have names beginning with “Princess.” Princess May was named after Mary of Teck, who was known as “May”. Later Princess ships were not named after actual princesses, however.
In 1901, the newly formed Canadian Pacific Railway Coast Service, operating in British Columbia under superintendent James W. Troup, wanted a steamship to meet the high demand for traffic on the route to southeastern Alaska, but did not want to wait for a year or more to build a new ship. Cass, by then operating under the name Hating (or Ha-Ting), was available. The Coast Service purchased Hating, and in May, 1901, under the command of Capt. A.O. Cooper, brought it across the Pacific to the west coast of Canada. Princess May was the first ship acquired by then-newly formed Canadian Pacific Railway Coast Service.
Beginning on 27 May 1901, Princess May was placed on the 800-mile (1,300 km) route from Vancouver, British Columbia along the British Columbia coast to Skagway, Alaska, running on alternate weeks with Islander. At this time, the demand for fast travel to Skagway was high, and steamships, including Princess May competed with each other to see which could first reach the port.
In 1906 the superstructure was rebuilt and the passenger accommodations were enlarged and improved. In 1907, May ran in alternate weeks with the newly completed Princess Royal. These ships served the many small mining, fishing and lumber settlements along the coast.
On 5 August 1910, Princess May, having departed from Skagway under the command of Captain MacLeod with 80 passengers, 68 crew, and a shipment of gold, was proceeding south down Lynn Canal in heavy fog. At a speed of about 10 knots (19 km/h), the ship ran aground on rocks near the north end of Sentinel Island, where there was a United States lighthouse station. It was high tide (the tidal range being about 16 feet at this point) and the momentum of the ship forced it well up onto the rocks, with the bow jutting upward at an angle of 23 degrees. This produced a number of photographs of the ship's predicament which were sold all over the west coast.
The engine rooms were flooded, and the ship could not move on its own. To remove Princess May from the rocks, the ship's owners hired Capt. W.H. Logan and the Seattle-based salvage tug Santa Cruz, as well as the William Jolliffe, one of the most powerful tugs on the British Columbia coast. Temporary shipways were built and rocks were blasted, and after several previous attempts failed, on 3 September 1910, the salvors were able to refloat the ship and tow it to port. This was the 32nd time that Captain Logan had successfully salvaged a ship. The cost of the salvage and the subsequent repair was $115,000.
In 1911, while undergoing repairs from the Sentinel Island stranding, Princess May was converted from coal to oil fuel. The ship was the first of the Princess fleet to be so converted. Oil-fueled boilers had many advantages. In 1919 the ship was sold to the Princess May (Steam ship) Company and transferred to the Caribbean. In the early 1930s the ship was deliberately sunk.
Scientists studying Antarctica have gained new insights into how the world’s biggest ice sheet is reacting to warming sea temperatures. The study uses three decades of radar satellite observations to map changes in grounding lines across the Antarctic continent from 1992 to 2025. It found that grounding lines were stable along more than 77% of Antarctica’s coastline, including major ice shelves such as Ross, Filchner-Ronne and Amery.
However, the research also detected significant retreat in vulnerable regions. This map shows the areas with most extensive grounded ice retreat are on the West Antarctica side of the continent, with substantial retreat also around the Antarctic Peninsula and on the East Antarctica coast.
The largest detected grounding line retreat was observed along the coast of the Amundsen Sea, in West Antarctica, where the ice withdrew in some places by up to 43 km over the study’s period. The most affected regions were near the East Getz, Smith, Thwaites and Pine Island ice sheets.
The study is based on data from several satellite missions including Copernicus Sentinel-1 and ERS.
Credits: ESA (data source: Rignot et al, 2026).
Seen here grounded at Tenerife South airport April 2019 due to the on-going issues with the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.
March 2019 saw the grounding worldwide of all Boeing 737 MAX 8 series aircraft after 2 separate crashes in five months - an Ethiopian Airlines on March 10th 2019 and Lion Air back in October 2018 sadly killing everybody on board both flights.
After the Ethiopian Airlines fatality back on March 10th 2019, this then saw airlines starting to ground their B737 MAX 8 fleets until eventually Boeing announced there would then be a worldwide grounding of all versions of the aircraft.
This TUI Airways B737 MAX 8 aircraft seen here grounded at Tenerife South airport (TFS) had its last operational flight back on March 12th 2019 operating the service 'BY2202' from Manchester Airport.
On Tuesday 16th April 2019, an FAA ( Federal Aviation Administration) panel has said that after a review of the an update by Boeing to the B737 MAX 8 aircraft software, it is now operationally suitable. It will be interesting to see what will now happen going forward.
Tenerife South Airport (TFS), 15th April 2019..
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Lake Champlain Steamboat Ticonderoga
Shelburne Museum
Shelburne, Vermont
Grounded -- but a case of intentional grounding. Built by Shelburne Shipyard in 1906 for Champlain Transportation Co., the Ticonderoga has been on this spot at Shelburne Museum since 1955, giving it more years at the museum than on Lake Champlain. Moving the boat from the lake to the museum involved a process similar to that used in moving the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse tower many years later, with a track laid in a trench for the 1954-55 journey. The boat is 220 feet long, has a vertical-beam steam engine, and has a paddle wheel 24 feet in diameter on each side (on a large enough screen, part of one can be seen in this photo); the only other surviving boat of this type is the Eureka, on the San Francisco waterfront. At its 17 mph cruising speed, the Ticonderoga's two boilers burned two tons of coal per hour, shoveled by hand. The engine's single cylinder has a stroke of nine feet, a bore of 53 inches, and a 3,000 pound piston. Steamboat Ticonderoga was named a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966 (66000797). At the museum, the steamboat is near Colchester Reef Lighthouse, also relocated from Lake Champlain; a lighthouse photo posted 2-1/2 weeks ago is in my New England album.
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The story of the Elibank Castle reads like a ripping yarn. She was one of the earliest vessels built in the Great Lakes Area of NSW. This image, taken from a sketch, shows her stranded but the location is not stated: it seems, however, to be her stranding on Ninety Mile Beach (south of Christchurch on the East Coast of the South Island, New Zealand) in June 1875.
To fully present the astounding events surrounding this vessel a report is presented for each of three periods in her short life:
- grounding in New Zealand in 1875
- first trip to the Pacific Islands in 1884
- final trip to the Islands in 1885
Section 1 deals specifically with her movement to New Zealand and subsequent grounding.
Section 2 deals with her first visit to the Pacific Islands in late 1884 and the murder of 5 crew members, including the captain. Section 2
Section 3 deals with her second and final visit to the Pacific Islands in 1885 when all but two of the crew were murdered - the survivors sailed the ship to New Guinea and were forced to abandon her and take to the long boat. Only one man survived and he turned up in Cooktown; seven months after the massacre in the Solomon Islands. Section 3
Details
Name: Elibank Castle
Type: Topsail Schooner – two masts
Official Number: ON 71811
Registered Sydney 3/1875
Length: 80 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 6.85 ft
Registered net tonnage: 69.62 tons
Builders: William Peat and Donald Cameron
Location: Coolongolook, NSW.
Launched: September 1874 (no specific record)
Loss: Abandoned after hitting reef - Northern New Guinea (German Colony)
Owners:
1875 – 1877 James Mathew Banks (NZ)
Registered in Wellington, New Zealand (2/1875)
Stranded Ninety Mile Beach; Recovered
Registered in Wellington New Zealand (10/1875)
1877 – 1879 George Parkman Austing (NZ)
Registered Dunedin, New Zealand (17/1877)
1879 – 1880 James Anderson (NZ)
1880 – 1884 Keith Ramsay, John Graham & James Anderson (NZ)
1884 - Capt. Augustus Otto Wilhelm Routch
Registered in Sydney 114/1884
Early Life
The Elibank Castle was built by William Peat and Donald Cameron on the banks of the Coolongolook River at Coolongolook. No details of her launch have been found but a report from 7th September 1874 indicated that launching was imminent.
"Peat and Cameron's vessel now building at the Coolongolook is nearly ready for launching. She is a pretty model and right well put together with well seasoned timber, and bids fair to prove a first class little craft to brave the dangers of the coast. September 7, 1874." The Maitland Mercury and .. - 19 September 1874.
SECTION 1 - NEW ZEALAND
It appears that she was sold to Captain James Mathew Banks - a well-known mariner in Sydney. She was registered in Sydney (3/875) and by late January was advertised as accepting cargo for Wanganui. The Sydney Morning Herald - 22 January 1875. She departed for Wanganui under the command of Captain Southgate on March 3rd 1875 and was registered in Wellington (2/1875).
Stranded on Ninety Mile Beach
Just three months later, on the evening of 6th June 1875, she was stranded on Ninety Mile Beach (South Island) near the mouth of the Ashburton River – there was no loss of life. North Otago Times 10 June 1875. The Success, of Auckland, was not so lucky when, during the same gale, she was washed ashore at the entrance of the nearby Ashburton River – four crew were drowned. North Otago Times - 10 June 1875..
The following account from a letter written by Captain Linklater best describes the event:
"We have been favoured by Messrs. W and G. Turnbull and Co. with the following extract from a letter -from Captain Linklater regarding the loss of the Elibank Castle :—
Ninety-mile Beach, 13th June, 1875, I beg to forward you an account of our misfortunes. We arrived at Timaru on Tuesday, 1st June, after a very tedious passage of southerly gales and calms, and found eleven sailing vessels and two steamers in the roadstead, some of which had been there 25 days, and had not got clear of their inward cargo. I was on shore once, but landed none of my inward cargo. On Friday, the 4th, at 5 p.m., it commenced to blow a hard gale from the southward, but only three vessels went to sea. On Saturday [6th], at 9.30 a.m., it commenced to blow very heavy, when signals went out from the shore for all vessels to put to sea and they all slipped their cables. We slipped at 10.30 a.m., and stood out to sea with the wind at south. At 2 p.m. the wind hauled to the S.E., putting the vessel on a dead lee shore, the wind blowing furiously, with a tremendous high sea at the beam, throwing the vessel on her beam ends several times, and, scarcely able to recover herself again. At 4 p.m. we saw the schooner Success, of Auckland, owned by Mr. Blair, of Wanganui, about two and a-half miles to leeward, and another vessel about the same distance ahead. The first vessel went ashore twelve miles to the south of us, and the other fifteen miles north. At 8 p.m. we saw land on the lee quarter, and no chance of keeping the vessel off the shore. We then made preparations to save life. At 9.15 p.m. we struck heavily on the beach, the sea breaking heavily over us, being low water at the time. We did not wash up till early next morning, when she was left high and dry. The following high water the sea only met round her. She now lies broadside on to the sea, with a small list to seaward, and about 40 yards from a cliff, which I measured, and found to be 46 feet high. The bench is loose, soft shingle. The vessel does not appear to have hurt much. She must have rubbed a considerable amount of copper off her bottom, which cannot be seen, as she is well embedded in the shingle.
Sunday, 9 a.m., we all started in various directions over the plain, to try and find a habitation. The nearest was Mr. Moffat’s, of Wakanui Creek, eight miles to the south of us, who kindly forwarded a telegram to you, and he gave me a horse to ride to Ashburton next morning, where I found it would be of no use to go to Timaru, as Christchurch was the nearest town, with the railway all the way.
Tuesday, 8th. — Had a telegram from the Agent Smith British Insurance Company, telling me to wait for him. Wednesday, 9th, at 9 a.m., proceeded to the wreck in a four-horse coach, in company with Mr. McPherson, Captain Dunsford, surveyor, Mr. McDougall, H.M.C., and Mr. Cuff, of Lyttelton, arriving at 1.30 p.m. On Thursday, 10th, rigged up a derrick 65 feet long, to land the cargo on the cliff. At night Captain Dunsford arrived with letters, and food for the draw horses, which came next morning Friday and Saturday finished discharging and got all the cargo on the cliff. At night on Saturday three drays arrived to take away the bonded cargo and some other goods. On Tuesday two oilier drays arrived, taking the balance of the cargo. The draymen that came to-day informed me that the wreck of the Success was found off the entrance of the Ashburton River, also four dead bodies of the crew. I saw part of the wreck at Moffat's Station that was picked up and carted to his house, consisting of a piece of mast, the whole of the deck house, stanchions, piece of the boat with the captain's name painted inside, also two life buoy 3 with the words " Success, of Auckland," painted on them. Evening Post, 19 June 1875.
The Elibank Castle was refloated and repaired; she was registered later that year (10/1875) in Wellington. After a few years of trading along the South Island, without incident, she was advertised for sale in Brisbane and finally purchased by Captain Augustus Otto Wilhelm Routch from Sydney in October 1884. She was Registered in Sydney (114/1884) but remained in Brisbane.
Image Source Alexander Turnbull Library, Welington - National Library of New Zealand - image A-078-013
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Grounding. That's what I have to do before I look at pictures. If I am nervous or anxious my perspective gets blown way way way out of proportion and I make all kinds of unkind judgements. So I will work or grounding that energy before I engage.
After being freed from a grounding incident, the Federal Rideau (IMO 9200445, Hong Kong) waits on the hook for coast guard inspections. The bulk carrier, loaded with Thunder Bay grain, will head for Quebec City upon her release.
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SS Meteor is the sole surviving ship of the unconventional "whaleback" design, created by Scottish captain Alexander McDougall, which enabled her to carry a maximum amount of cargo with a minimum of draft. When fully loaded, only the convex upper part of the cigar-shaped hull was visible above the waterline; it was intended to high seas off its back like a whale (and presumably ice in winter?)
Meteor was built in 1896 in Superior, WI., and, with a number of modifications, sailed until 1969. She is currently a museum ship in the city of her birth.
Meteor was built by the American Steel Barge Company (ASB) at their yard in Superior in the summer of 1896 as Frank Rockefeller. McDougall's expense records listed the cost of construction of Frank Rockefeller as $181,573.38.
She joined the ASB's barges and steamers in the movement of iron ore from Lake Superior ports down to the steel mills of Lake Erie and coal back up the lakes. She would also carry the odd loads of grain. As a steamer, she would often tow one or more of the company's "consort" barges to augment her carrying capacity.
In 1900, along with the rest of the ASB fleet, she was sold to the Bessemer Steamship Company, marine division of the Bessemer Steel Company. A year later, she again changed hands along with the whole of the Bessemer Fleet when it joined with seven other fleets to form the massive, 112-boat Pittsburgh Steamship Company, marine division of the equally-massive US Steel.
She grounded off Isle Royale on 2 November 1905 after she got lost in a snowstorm. Most of the damage from the grounding came from the barge she had been towing - when the ship hit the rocks, the barge continued ahead until it crashed into the Frank Rockefeller's stern. Eventually repaired and put back into service, she sailed as a "Tin Stacker" (so called because of the silver-painted funnels) until 1927.
That year, she was sold for use as a sand dredge and renamed South Park. As a dredge, she was used to obtain fill for the site of the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. In 1936, she changed hands again and became an auto carrier. She sailed for several years under this new guise, hauling new autos from Detroit, Milwaukee, and Kewaunee until 1942. She was wrecked off Manistique that year. Had it not been for the great demand for tonnage in World War II, she would have been scrapped. Instead, she was sold to the Cleveland Tanker Company, and converted to a tanker. It was at this time that she obtained the name Meteor, as Cleveland Tanker named their vessels after celestial bodies. As a tanker, she hauled gasoline and other liquids for over 25 years.
In 1969, Meteor was the last of the original 43 whalebacks, but that season, she ran aground on Gull Island Shoal off Marquette, MI. Cleveland Tanker Company chose not to repair the 73-year-old steamer because severe damage had been done to the single-hulled tanker's hull.
However, because Meteor was the last surviving whaleback, she was bought, repaired and taken to Superior, WI., in 1971 for use as a museum ship. She was berthed at Barkers Island where she remains today. She was added to the US National Register of Historic Places on 9 September 1974.
Meteor is the last extant example of an experimental class of lakers. With the turn of the 21st century, Meteor was reported in a delicate state with her hull was rusting in places and the interiors in serious need of repair. Because of her condition, in 2004 she was named one of the 10 most endangered historical properties by the Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation. By 2016, restoration had progressed and many portions of the ship were in excellent condition.
Meteor is 120m in length, with a beam of 14m and a draught of 7.9m. She has 12 cargo holds which now contain an exhibit on the history of the ship.
Meteor, along with all but one of her sister whalebacks, were the first major vessels on the Great Lakes with all accommodations aft and only a small room for the anchor windlass at the bow. Accommodations on Meteor include crew and officers' quarters, a galley, two dining areas, five showers, and three laundry areas.
The above image gives a good idea of the cigar-shaped hull.
Amid COVID-19 groundings, Frontier is serving just Orlando from Cleveland for the time being. Today's early morning arrival was their newest A320neo, Elrey the Elk and is seen about to touch down on runway 6L
Animus and Anima are present in all modes of consciousness. The masculine and feminine both manifest themselves consciously in qualia (feeling a baby kick in the womb) in the subconscious and unconscious (releasing progesterone during pregnancy to stop ovulation, producing semen, the focus arising from testosterone) and in the collective unconscious (masculine and feminine roles structure collective experience, language, literature, etc.)
Animus has distinctive notes that must be expressed in the mode of Anima where Anima predominates. For Jung, the distinctive notes of Animus are Power, meaning, and self-consciousness. Power is the predominant mode of animus in primitive experience. Here the paradigms are the hero (Achilles, Beowulf), the cowboy, the athlete. The paradigm manifests competition, drive, determination, authority, superiority. This level of Animus has many expressions in Anima: the figure skater, female gymnast, powerful queen, grizzly-mother, activist, office manager. Where meaning and self-consciousness are measured by relationship to God or in religious terms, there are also clear modes of equality between Animus and Anima: Animus makes theologies and disputes over abstract concepts; Anima has personal, mystical insight within the religious-wisdom tradition.
The problem arises when self-consciousness is defined through the inherently abstract, impersonal, and fundamentally subjugative mode of technological accomplishment. Anima has yet to find a way to express itself in this mode, and so finds itself fundamentally alienated. This is the problem of Anima in the contemporary world, and it is not clear whether valuing technology in this way can be just. But this does not bode well for technology, since Anima simply will not tolerate this sort of exclusion from the highest mode of consciousness for long.
“The problem arises when self-consciousness is defined through the inherently abstract, impersonal, and fundamentally subjugative mode of technological accomplishment. Anima has yet to find a way to express itself in this mode, and so finds itself fundamentally alienated.”
Which sort of technological accomplishment do you have in mind here?
I guess when I think of technological trends in the last 10-20 years, a significant number have been toward an increase in social functions (Facebook & other social media, texting, Skype), intuitive interface (iPad, Nintendo Wii), and personal customization (iPhone, Android). Rather than abstract and impersonal, they are becoming normal elements of everyday social interaction and personal expression.
The use of technology (used broadly to include biotech, machines, etc.) and science can always be personal and integrative, but its the making of the stuff that is seen as the height of self-consciousness and human achievement. We’ve exalted the mastery and dominance over nature in thought and praxis as the ideal, and Jung’s claim is that we have yet to find a way in which Anima can express this. This has led some to deny the value of Anima and say either that liberation requires assimilating all to the masculine or that masculine and feminine mere constructions imposed on a sexless substrate. But what could be more male than to see “person” as an objectively sexless substrate? This is exactly the sort of depersonalized abstraction that is alienating Anima in the first place. Both ideas involve the grossest sexual injustice.
Note that, while on the first level of approximation this will lead to an obvious tension between the sexes and a subjugation of women, Animus and Anima are definitive characteristics in all persons. To put it concretely if crudely, men have estrogen and women have testosterone. While the problems set down above is primary a problem with alienating women, the problem will manifest itself in another way by alienating the proper expression of the Anima in male life too.
Okay. That helps. Perhaps the problem is that modern technology arises from a largely Animus-dominated scientific progression, focusing on impersonal laws and mechanisms in the first place. I’m not sure what the Anima parallel might be, but I guess it is easier for me to imagine something arising in the future altogether different than the technology in question than to see some significant way in which Anima could modify or fit into what we have now. The way you put it, it seems like a square peg/round hole problem, akin perhaps (acknowledging that both men and women have Animus and Anima) to the protests of some modern feminists today that the liberation women achieved in the past was that women could do everything a man does like a man, but that she still is not honored to do specifically feminine things as a woman, e.g. having special breaks at work after childbirth to beastfeed her child or pump milk. I’m not sure if that is the most helpful example, but it’s the best I can do.Emma Jung (1880-1955) was wife of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) for more than 50 years and, also for many years, was one of the directors of Carl Gustav Jung Institute in Zurique, where she gave lectures and worked as a psychotherapist and supervisor. Twelve important works (from 1931 and 1955) are together in this book; the book was published in Jerusalem in 1967 and only now in Portuguese. Jung's psychology, the animus and the anima are forças mentais that, among other activities, form laços between (1) or collective unconsciousness, that is present from birth and that is genetically (biologically) determined, and (2) the unconscious person, that is the product of all the experiences of a person in the environment. Animals and animations also have important functions in the sexual identification of a person and in forming relationships with people of the opposite sex. In Jung's terminology, these are special types of archetypes. For the last few years, C. G. Jung's psychotherapy theories and techniques are attracting ever-growing attention. Jung is not suffering the progressive decline of interest that other psychiatric psychiatric writers, such as Freud and the various post-Freudians, are suffering. It is provable that in large part the persistence, and even the increase, of Jung's influence is due to the fact that Jung's psychology combines well with religious points of view. Only Jung, among the great pioneers in psychology and psychiatry in the 20th century, has this quality. Jung also has, and always has, a wide audience, especially among people who are interested in spiritual matters. In order to satisfy the growing interest of Jung in Brazil, Editora Cultrix, besides this volume, published in recent years more than a few vintage or other classic works of Jungian literature. It's clear that many psychiatrists and psychologists cannot accept Jung's basic theories. They cannot agree with the Jungian theses that (1) complete mental health requires an extensive development of forces (arquétipos) that have potential for religious expression, and that exist since the birth of collective unconsciousness in each person, and (2) one of the fundamental functions of psychotherapy is to help that spiritual development. Still, it is clear that psychiatrists and other professionals in the field of mental health are updated on important currents in the various branches of our profession, and this book by Emma Jung deals with a significant aspect of the Jungian psychological system. Readers who have accepted, or are willing to accept, Jung's points of view will make this book interesting enough, but readers who cannot afford to accept Jung's theories will try to make many speculative parts of it.
Practising psychotherapists in the West are becoming
familiar with the emergence of the psychological
problems that are affecting “liberated” women. A large
number of women who are highly successful and
competent in outer terms are plagued with a deep-
rooted inner feeling of worthlessness, lack of value and
inferiority. The conventional approach to this malaise
has been to ascribe it to psychological overloading, ME
or the necessity for these women to become yet more
ambitious and striving.
The Jungian concept of the animus is particularly suited to dealing with the problems facing the new women. Jung discovered that the human psyche was androgynous
and consisted of both masculine and feminine. Because of gender-identified ego-development, however, the masculine element in the woman and the feminine element in the
man remain unconscious and undifferentiated. When any psychological content is unconscious it follows two courses – either it becomes projected outwards onto an external
object, or leads to identification with it.
While a woman’s animus remains unconscious it too will follow these channels for expression. Whilst the “unliberated” woman will project her animus outwards through
romantic novels, stereotyped relationships and an existence lived through the men in her life, the liberated woman falls into the other side of the trap, i.e. she becomes identified with her animus and loses the vital link with her feminine identity, living on a false (for a woman) masculine level. Such a woman will then find herself in a double-bind situation, where her idealisation of the masculine leads her to denigrate the feminine. Considering the thousands of years of the patriarchal inflation of the male principle it is hardly surprising that women who introject this find themselves in the grip of a tyrannical, powerful and judgemental force that undermines their individual identity. ’Together with this the woman also introjects inferior images of the feminine, images that are based on the two classic reactions of the male to the female: horror and fascination. The witch at one end of the pole suggests woman in her demonic aspect, devouring, ugly, isolated, and phallic, representing everything that is despised and rejected in the feminine. The enchantress on the other end of the pole is sexually voracious, a siren and a Circe who traps men and turns them into swine. On the individual level
each woman carries this rejected aspect of the feminine in her shadow side.Women who are presenting with this problem in analysis will often have initial dreams of witches, hags and down-and-out women, which is how they see themselves unconsciously. Thus identified with the negative side of their shadow they find that the moment the animus emerges it allies itself with the shadow, leading at the moment of greatest outward animus-fulfilling achievements to the most dejected feelings of inner worthlessness.
The Father Complex
Because the first carrier of the woman’s animus is her father the condition and force of her personal animus will be determined by the father-complex. If her father has been
too strong, she will internalise the voice of judgement and critical authority. If he is too weak, she will have no opportunity for internalising the masculine and will lead a
vegetative, unconscious existence, ready to serve the projections and needs of all the male forces in her life. The animus also provides a woman with the ability to question,
think, and for spirituality. It must not be forgotten that the animus does have a positive role to play in the psychological development of women. When it is activated
in its positive aspect, it releases positive masculine energy, focused attention, concentration and every quality associated with logos thinking, the ability to connect in consciously with what was previously unconscious. It can also be a positive “father-force”, carrying encouragement, protection, principle and containment. In dreams the animus can appear as collective body of men, soldiers, sailors, jury, committees and other symbols of masculine authority. It can also appear as the father, brother, lover, husband, son or other male figure from the dreamer’s life. More undifferentiated animus symbols includes clouds, wind, rain, thunder, penetrating phallus,
animals such as snakes, bulls, horses and dogs. In its more collective archetypal force the animus can appear as a king, a warrior, a wise man as well as mythological figures such
as Pan, Adonis, Dionysus, Appollo and Hermes.Apart from the father aspect of the animus in its mantel of law, order, authority and establishment, the animus also presents itself in the unexpected guise of the trickster both on the outer and the inner plane. In this aspect, the animus is an amoral dissolute adventurer who yet performs the necessary function of releasing the woman from the tyranny of established law (father) to a life of adventure, instability and subversion. On
the outer level, women often get involved with Don Juans with whom they can only enjoy a transient non-committal relationship which they can use as a tool of rebellion
against an authoritarian father. On the inner level too the trickster-animus has a similar function, providing a woman with a counterpoint against the father-animus. Pan,
Hermes, monkeys, goblins, dwarves, knackers, clowns, harlequins, leprechauns etc. are images of the trickster in dreams. Over a period of time, the trickster has a way of evolving from an amoral, half-human creature to its rightful function as a symbol of transformation and then it appears increasingly in dreams in the various guises of Hermes, ringing bells, knocking on doors, demanding attention, bearing gifts, guiding journeys, and generally being indispensable in the woman’s psychological development.
It is important to keep in mind that as in any psychological process, there is no strict logical order; the analysand is having to deal with different aspects of the animus at the
same time, and this will be reflected in her dreams. It will generally be well into the process of differentiation when dreams contain different aspects of the animus. When this
happens, it is important to pay attention to what is presenting, allowing the woman to reclaim what is hers and reject that which is psychologically alien. A woman engaged in
this process dreamt:
”While my father, my husband and I are out of our flat, my maid has let in a 14 year old boy who had come selling sachets of herbal perfume. He needs a job as he is quite poor, and there is something very honest
about him. My father sees red, and says he will only break things. But the boy assures me he is very careful and always pushes back drawers that he has opened. I have a struggle with myself, my first instinct being to listen to the better judgement of my father. But then I decide that I can find a job for the boy, he can take charge of the daily shopping for
groceries.”The dream indicates a distinct turning point in the dreamer’s struggle for liberation from an idealised father. The boy is the new emerging personal animus who will be in
the service of the woman, the rightful place psychologically speaking for a woman’s masculine element. Both perfume sachets and shopping indicate the feeling values, which is
what the dreamer needs to balance her thinking-orientated activities. The boy is very careful to push back the drawers which to the dreamer held contents that were intimate,
for instance jewellery and underwear. So this animus can be entrusted with exploring the secrets of her psyche whilst yet providing a container that is safe and private. This would be yet another function of the positive animus.The above dream occurred about two years into the woman’s analysis. Her previous dreams had consisted of negative male figures constellated both by her father-complex and her partner. In its negative aspect, the animus constellates as the inner critic, judge, sadist, murderer, evil magician and the proverbial cad who constantly informs the woman that she’s ugly, worthless, stupid, and unlovable. It disrupts all the feeling-relationships
of the woman, in the face of all reality “proving” to her that her partner doesn’t love her. This is the inner critical voice that every woman has heard. It always strikes when something has already occurred to shake the woman or when she has been very successful, to deflate her. This inner tyrant holds complete sway and she finds herself yielding areas of her life that gave her pleasure and enrichment. Every time she tries to enjoy a well-deserved rest or treat the animus will taunt her with the accusation that she’s wasting her time, she’d be better off doing something “productive”.This is the introjected father-turned-judge who lays down the laws of acceptable behaviour and feelings. It convinces us that if we go against these dictates we are letting some authority down. In the presence of this voice every woman will be made to feel
like a silly little girl, who possesses no dignity in her own right.
The Inner Tyrant
The classic manifestation in dreams of this inner tyrant is as a Nazi imprisoning the woman in a concentration camp. If we keep in mind that the Nazis considered themselves Ubermenchen (Supermen) we can see how apt a symbol of this inflated masculine the unconscious has chosen. Women often have dreams of trying to escape from a camp,
being chased or shot at by the Nazi guards. Rapists, killers, and burglars are also common symbols. As well as violation, invasion, mutilation and dismemberment all indicate the
masculine principle turned awry and attacking the feminine identity. The following is a dream of a 26 year old woman before analysis:“It is night-time. There is a young, beautiful homosexual man inside a military camp. Outside the military camp, under a street lamp, sits a dwarf in a wheelchair. The young homosexual man passes by. The dwarf
calls him over as if asking for help. When the young man comes up to the dwarf, the dwarf pulls out a big knife and cuts the young man up in pieces.”The violence perpetrated in this dream is on the emerging personal animus. The young, beautiful aspect of the animus has an ambiguous masculinity, i.e. he is homosexual. The young and beautiful also suggests a narcissistic quality which in fact is a reflection of the dreamer’s father who suffered a narcissistic personality disorder. The dwarf is a stunted animus who is guarding the military camp and who cuts up the young
animus with a huge (and phallic) knife.The experience of sexual abuse can greatly affect the woman’s introjection of the masculine. When this has been the case the analyst has to take special care to disentangle the symbolic from the literal. For instance, a woman who had been sexually molested
when she was eight, as an adult often had dreams and fantasies of being attacked by several large penises. She also felt extremely uncomfortable with male physicality. During
the course of the analysis the possibility that she had been abused began to emerge. In her case, the invasion by the masculine had been a literal one, and had contaminated her
animus so that the animus too had turned against her. She was obsessive about her work, cut off from feeling type activities, highly successful but also with an inbuilt feeling of
worthlessncss which reflected her damaged femininity. The task of therapy was to cut down the animus to size by enhancing and encouraging the feminine.
The Wise ManAnother aspect of the animus is the Wise Man, the man who knows everything, whose function it is to inform, guide, teach and lead us. In its positive forms this is the archetype of wisdom. Like Moses or Solomon this man can relate to an idea in a subjective way and represents the true thinking function which is not split off, cold, sterile and objec
tive as it is assumed to be, but passionate and original However, if the woman identifies with the wise man archetype, she can become totally, and dangerously, caught up with the ideal way to be, invaded by the “spirit-father”. She will then seek achievement in masculine spiritual and cultural terms seeing herself as a sybil, a genius or a pure unearthly angel untainted by the blood and flesh of her feminine identity. Or she could live out this fantasy vicariously, through serving as the anima of some great man.Identification with any aspect of the animus, negative or positive, incurs the enmityand wrath of the Great Mother archetype (the mature feminine) which turns negative and appears in the woman’s dreams often as a witch, devouring, malignant. The negative great mother can also manifest in physical symptoms such as irregular menstruation, amenorrhoea and fertility problems.
High-achieving, animus-possessed women can also suffer from compulsive disorders such as bulimia or anorexia nervosa. Because of the lack of a strong female matrix, the
body is attacked by the negative animus, and the woman becomes split off from the feminine. Women who suffer from these disorders will in fact often acknowledge that it is
their own femininity they are attacking, and will often say that it is an internal dictator who drives them in such a regimented and forceful way to the brink of death. Angelyn Spignesi, in “Starving Women” quotes an analysand who describes the “morbid urge which rules her” as “an enemy, a man with a drawn sword, or an armed man who surrounds me and stops me whenever I try to escape his domination.”The animus possesses such extraordinary power within the woman’s psyche because it is an archetype. It is impersonal, inhuman and autonomous. If we don’t relate to it and allow it a conscious channel, it can obliterate the ego-identity. It has a life of its own, which is not under human control. Barbara Hannah pointed out that the animus jumps in whenever the feminine ego is not functioning, choosing and discriminating.
Emma Jung wrote that women have need for the spiritual. When this need is denied, the animus appropriates the Self.
Jung, in the Visions Seminars , wrote that “the animus is a very greedy fellow, and everything that falls into the unconscious is possessed by it. He is there with open mouth
and catches everything that falls down from the table of consciousness….if you let some feeling or reaction get away from you he eats it, becomes strong, and begins to argue
.” So becoming more conscious of her thoughts, feelings and values is crucial to the woman. This is particularly so as regards hurt feelings which if not expressed in a related way,
can turn into animus attacks. These attacks take the form of being caught or possessed in a spiral of rage, which gathers, momentum and leads us on to say the most appalling
things. The animus can damage marriage or close relationships by cutting off the feeling function, and also by unconsciously engaging the man’s anima. When the anima and animus begin to argue they are fed by a store of suppressed feelings of anger, resentment, envy, power, coldness and fear, each fed by the parental complexes of the partners.
Redeeming the Personal Father
In dealing with the problem of the animus the therapist will first have to deal with the father, since the main problem of the animus is constellated by the father-complex.
The woman’s main task in this process is to redeem her personal father, or rather her inner relation to her father. By attempting to see her father in both his dark and light
side she can get out of the trap of being caught in opposite sides of a spectrum which is what gives a complex its force. The dark side of the father consists of anger, lack of con
trol and incompleteness, the positive side offers power, generosity and creativity. But as long as the woman is caught in an idealised/rejecting pole she will be disowning elements of her own psyche. Being whole also requires the withdrawal of projections by reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have projected externally. Because the father
also represents authority and something, by rejecting him the woman is also rejecting her own authority. If the woman’s attitude to her father is too idealised on the other hand, it will have the effect of cutting her off from her own professional capabilities. She will only be able to succeed on her father’s terms, and will have great difficulty in accepting and devel
oping her own talents. They will always appear slightly inconsequential to her. Too positive a relationship to the father can also prevent the woman from having a real re
lationship with another man, as any prospective partner will be compared to the idealised father and inevitably found wanting. To internalise the father principle, the woman then
has to break the idealised transference to her father by acknowledging his negative side. Linda Schierse Leonard, writing in “To Be a Woman” (3) says that “ultimately, redeeming the father entails reshaping the Masculine within, fathering that side of ourselves. Instead of the “perverted old man” and the “angry, rebellious boy”, we need to find the Man with Heart, the inner man with a good relation to the Feminine.” The emergence of this man with heart was signalled for an analysand in the following dream:“A friend of my partner’s called Sweetman has called on me. He has a briefcase in one hand and a doll in the other. He says that the doll had gone bald but he had transplanted hair back onto its head. He never went anywhere without it now.”The bald doll represents a sterile logos, thinking without heart. One is reminded of Yeats’ “Bald heads forgetful of their sins”. By restoring hair, Sweetman restores to it the crowning glory of the feminine. This is the man who is sweet, who has found a balance between the masculine and the feminine. Now he never goes anywhere without the feminine.Of course the integration with the feminine is still only in its formative stages, since it appears as a doll, but its a start and this analysand’s subsequent dreams show how the doll becomes a flesh and blood woman, a positive shadow figure who is “at her side”.
Strengthening the Feminine
Apart from redeeming the father and the masculine the woman, in her efforts to humanise the animus, also has to strengthen the feminine within her. This means not only
restoring value to the feminine in the face of patriarchy and her own rejection of the feminine but also to acknowledge her female ancestors. Modern woman, in order to free herself from the shackles of subservient femininity also rejects her mother and the collective archetype of femininity. The conscious separation from the mother’s model of life and marriage also separates the woman from the emotional and instinctive part of herself. So an intrinsic part of the healing will be to develop a strong feminine container, which can reconcile the woman to her nurturing, receptive, biological identity. The therapist’s role is crucial to this process in providing a safe maternal container. The unwary therapist can worsen matters at this stage if he/she has political feminist views which are concerned with liberating women from the feminine rather than liberating them to be feminine. Counselling the animus-identified woman who secretly feels inferior to be more assertive and ambitious is the worst possible thing. In fact, the therapist has to make it possible for the analysand to be more receptive, intuitive and feeling.
Rituals are particularly good for grounding in the feminine. Anything that the patient relates to is valuable e.g. drawing, sculpting, clay-modelling, dancing, knitting. It enables the patient to act out the boundaries outside that she’s trying to create inside. Rituals provide containers which allow one to play within a pattern. Acting them out can be tremendously healing. I have found rituals to be of particular help to women suffering from eating disorders. Women should also be warned against sacrificing their personal instincts and feelings for an ideal, an achievement or external goal, a particularly strong temptation for the conscious female. Animus, being very goal-oriented keeps woman on the move. Whenever this voice dictates, women should try and resist it, by taking time off or treating themselves. Humour can quickly restore a sane perspective, deflating the pompous self-importance of the animus. Indulging oneself in trivialities too can be very healing. One woman, in the grip of her animus, dreamt that she was in a large store in Grafton Street looking at little trinkets. She then bought a perfume called “Sweet Nothings”.The dream was a gentle hint to pay more attention to the sweet nothings of life. Caught in the grip of the animus, a woman feels cut off from precisely the sweetness of life. Activities that help us to use our feeling function of relatedness are perhaps the best antidote to the grip of the animus. Taking time off to play with the children, giving attention to a pet, cultivating a garden, these are all activities that centre around nurturing life. They have to be undertaken in a very deliberate manner, even though this might seem unspontaneous at the time.
Channelling Energies
If a woman is in the grip of the “spirit-father: (see above) animus, she can be caught up in thinking that she is a creative genius or get involved in some project that is vague and inflated. At this time, what is needed is a very specific project that the woman can channel her energies into. This grounds the high-flying animus, at the same time of fering it a channel for its energy. Emma Jung wrote in “Anima and Animus” that “confronted with one of these aspects of the animus, the woman’s task is to create a place for it in her life and personality. Usually our talents, hobbies and so on, have already given us hints as to the direction in which this energy can become active. Often too, dreams point this way, and….will mention studies, books, and definite lines of work, or of artistic or executive activities”.
Confronted with the difficulties that the animus creates, women sometimes wonder whether it is not best left alone. The animus in fact is extremely important in the psychological development of women, enabling her to extend her consciousness, and through the capacity for objective, independent thought, allowing her to reclaim territories of her psyche previously unconscious and in the possession of extrinsic authority. The big struggle that now faces women is in learning to contain the animus both in its archetypal and personal spheres. Traditional feminist theories have fed the negative animus, because they have believed that women can only succeed on men’s terms. This extreme position was necessary to compensate for the oppression of women. But now women need to create structures in their lives and in society which ensure a niche for the conscious feminine. It is time to explode the fallacy that men and women are the same. Being equal does not mean having to be similar. Perhaps the time has come when we can afford to be different yet equal.
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