Again, quoting from The Portable Jung, “The Phenomenology of the Self…” (In case you can’t tell I like this book) Jung’s essay on the shadow… here’s a quote from pg 147. He has just talked about a patient’s projections. But it’s becoming clear that it involves more than merely a projection, or even the shadow:
This assumption becomes untenable after a certain point, because the symbols that then appear no longer refer to the same but to the opposite sex, in a man’s case to a woman and vice versa. The source of projections is no longer the shadow — which is always of the same sex as the subject — but a contrasexual figure. Here we meet the animus of a woman and the anima of a man, two corresponding archetypes whose autonomy and unconsciousness explain the stubbornness of their projections.
In my book, Animus, the main character has left law-enforcement to become a Jungian therapist. Then someone starts kidnapping his patients.
What he finds as he begins to investigate is a contrasexual figure — so much so — that he’s not sure if the kidnapper is a man or woman.