Over the summer, I wrote an in-depth paper for my course in Jungian psychology, which quickly became one of the most highly regarded and sought-after papers I’ve written during my studies and received the highest grade (A). The topic sparked strong engagement, perhaps because it touches on something that many people today intuitively feel: that our inner lives, our relationships, and even our bodies are influenced by forces that are difficult to put into words but which Carl Jung described as early as a hundred years ago.
Here, I am now sharing that work (in Swedish):
Research Paper: Anima and Animus in Modern Society—A Jungian Analysis with Reference to Jordan B. Peterson.
This paper also serves as the foundation for my upcoming book There’s Nothing Wrong with You, You’re Just Out of Balance, to be released in 2026. The book delves even deeper into the theme and explores how imbalances between the feminine and the masculine affect everything from our biology and psychology to our relationships and social structures.
In this work, I explore why we see so much stress, division, identity insecurity, and existential fatigue today, and how this can be understood through Jung and through the modern interpretation put forward by Jordan B. Peterson. When the anima and animus fail to communicate within us, there are often both physical and emotional consequences, and what were once individual conflicts are now visible on a large scale throughout society.
This is not an academic work detached from real life; it is a text about us, about our time, about why so many people feel that something is amiss, and about how wholeness is, in fact, possible.
You’re warmly invited to delve deeper.
*This work may not be shared or copied.