Even these holidays I experienced that no matter how cheerfully one wakes up in the morning, the animus can be there right away with the most depressing thoughts about things that have happened and insinuations that you are no good.’
If you can catch him before he gets hold of you, if you can do something without letting him inundate you, then you manage him, so to speak, as the Egyptians do the Nile.
~Barbara Hannah, Archetypal Symbolism of Animals
