| 释义 |
animus|ˈænɪməs|
No pl.
[a. L. animus (1) soul, (2) mind, (3) mental impulse, disposition, passion.]
1. Actuating feeling, disposition in a particular direction, animating spirit or temper, usually of a hostile character; hence, animosity.
[1818Not in Todd.] 1820Ann. Reg. 1819 74/2 The original design..was demonstrative of the animus of the projectors. 1831Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. I. 424 The animus is to impress upon the British soldiery the duty of putting down the liberties of their country. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 212 The animus with which the case has been conducted. 1863I. Taylor Pentateuch 16 Almost every page..affords an instance..of an intense feeling, or, as we say, animus; this is the word we use when a speaker or writer, who is labouring to substantiate a defamation, finds it more than he can do to repress emotions, that are not of the most amiable sort, and which he does not choose to avow. 1864Lowell Biglow P. Wks. 1879, 264/2 The animus that actuates the policy of a foreign country. 1953L. Edel Henry James, Untried Years iv. 195 Henry James expressed..the starch that congealed the blood of some New Englanders, with an often ill-concealed..animus.
2. Psychol. Jung's term for the masculine component of a female personality. Cf. anima.
1923[see anima]. 1943Horizon VIII. 262 The dominating animus peeping through the light-heartedness of the young girl. 1943H. Read Educ. through Art iv. 95 According to Jung, the conscious aspect of the individual's personality..is balanced..by a contra-sexual counterpart—that individual's animus (the male counterpart in the case of a woman) or anima (the female counterpart in the case of a man). 1962J. Jacobi Psychol. of C. G. Jung (ed. 6) iii. 111 The animus-possessed woman, opinionated and argumentative, the female know-it-all, who reacts in a masculine way and not instinctively. |