Even though the character Beatrice was based on a teenage girl that Dante-the-poet once knew, his portrayal of Beatrice-the-character is undoubtedly a composite figure, not an attempt to portray the teenage girl he once knew.
In Jung's terminology, both fictional figure of Beatrice and the actual woman Antonia Wolff represented anima figures for Dante-the-poet and Jung respectively. With their respective anima figures, both Dante-the-poet and Jung worked through their inner psychological journeys.
Now, the white male voters in thirty states who gave Donald J. Trump, the Republican Party's 2016 presidential candidate, a decisive electoral victory have not yet worked through to successful resolution their own unresolved struggle with the anima complex in their psyches. As a result, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential candidate, was a powerful symbol for them of their unresolved struggle with the anima complex in their psyches.
Under the circumstances, the publication of The Quotable Jung is timely because Jung's thought can help us understand the crisis of certain white men in American culture today who have not yet worked through the anima complex in their psyches.
In the preface, Harris says, "My faith is, then, that readers will find the Jung is these pages eminently readable and approachable, for he was a truly original thinker, a human being filled with kindness and compassion, and one of the greatest healers of all time" (page xii).
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