u/Fignootem

Hi! I am super interested in Jungian psychology; and I've just very recently started a new practice of using my mother's voice in my head to say positive, reassuring things. My mother is not like that in reality, and was actually abusive, yet I don't experience the struggle of cognitive dissonance. It's almost as if the voice is not only an ideal but a truer voice of my mother or "A" Mother in an archetypal sense. I began to question whether this was my anima manifesting through my ad hoc therapeutic practice. I wanted to ask, is an individual's anima or animus formed by the related parental figure of the opposing sex. Where can I read more on this from Jung if that is the case? Thank you.