Anima & Animus

Carl Jung proposed that every female being has an analogous "animus" within her psyche, representing a set of unconscious masculine attributes and potentials. Similarly, every male possesses an unconscious "anima," representing his feminine perception and empathetic values.

Levels of anima development
1) EVE - dealing with the emergence of a male's object of desire.
2) HELEN - an allusion to Helen of Troy. In this phase, women are viewed as capable of worldly success and of being self-reliant, intelligent and insightful, even if not altogether virtuous. This second phase is meant to show a strong schism in external talents (cultivated business and conventional skills) with lacking internal qualities (inability for virtue, lacking faith or imagination).
3) MARY - named after the Christian theological understanding of the Virgin Mary. At this level, females can now seem to possess virtue by the perceiving male (even if in an esoteric and dogmatic way), in as much as certain activities deemed consciously unvirtuous cannot be applied to her.
4) SOPHIA - named after the Greek word for wisdom. Complete integration has now occurred, which allows females to be seen and related to as particular individuals who possess both positive and negative qualities. The most important aspect of this final level is that, as the personification "Wisdom" suggests, the anima is now developed enough that no single object can fully and permanently contain the images to which it is related.

Levels of animus development
1) A personification of mere PHYSICAL POWER - for instance as an athletic champion or muscle man such as Tarzan.
2) The initiative and capacity for planned action...the ROMANTIC man - the 19th century British poet Shelley; or the MAN OF ACTION - America's Ernest Hemingway, war hero, hunter, etc.
3) The animus becomes the word, often appearing as a professor or clergyman...the bearer of the word - Lloyd George, the great political orator.
4) In his fourth manifestation, the animus is the incarnation of MEANING. On this highest level he becomes (like the anima) a mediator of...spiritual profundity. Jung noted that "in mythology, this aspect of the animus appears as Hermes, messenger of the gods; in dreams he is a helpful guide." Like Sophia this is the highest level of mediation between the unconscious and conscious mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_and_animus