There are types of women who seem naturally made to embody the images of the Anima that men hide within themselves. We could speak of an almost specific type. An essential element is the so-called "Sphinx" character, ambiguity or even polysemy. Not some vague indefiniteness, in which nothing can be discovered, but an indefiniteness full of promises, the eloquent silence of the Joconda - young and old, mother and daughter, of dubious purity, with naive intelligence and childlike grace that disarms men. (Carl Gustav Jung)

People sometimes believe that friendship remains, that only desire has faded. But this is not true. Sometimes the lips lie, or the mind does not want to understand, but bodily functions always tell the truth. When these do not function satisfactorily, it means that there is no harmony between the two partners... At least one of them is not willing to bear the burden of love and marriage and seeks an escape, seeks a way out. (Alfred Adler)

In the conscious thoughts of adults, the mother appears as a personality with unassailable moral purity, and nothing is more painful, whether it has an external or internal origin, than doubt in this character of the mother. It is precisely this relationship of sharp contrast between the "mother" and the "whore" that will prompt us to investigate the history of the evolution and the unconscious relationship of these two complexes, since we already know that in the unconscious, what is separated into two opposites in consciousness coincides as One. (Sigmund Freud)