Also known as 'when
animas attack.'
This is a way of explaining the whole phenomenon of
falling in love, having a
crush on someone, etc. Basically it involves
projecting one's anima or
animus, which typically includes psychological elements
repressed due to societal
conditioning aimed at making males
masculine and females
feminine, onto someone else.
Since these elements - feeling,
sensitivity and
stability in men and
rational thinking and
logic in women - are repressed largely due to
society's images of what men and women should be rather than
inborn tendencies, they are typically associated with an
ideal image which remains
unconscious. Then this ties in with the whole idea of projection. Someone comes along who matches your inner ideal anima
blueprint and all of a sudden, the stars are aligned, meteors are falling, and you've found
the one.
For some this is a necessary step to accepting and integrating this
disparate parts of one's self, for others it just makes the whole process harder (i.e. it totally fucks your groove up). In a similar
vein it could be said that falling in love represents the birth of an anima/animus projection whilst '
true love' is what endures the collapse of said projection.