~Subtler minds in the Middle Ages already knew that every man “carries
Eve, his wife, hidden in his body”. It Is this feminine element in every
man (based on the minority of female genes in his biological make-up)
which I have called the anima.~ C.G. Jung
By leaving him, her absence gave her a power over him that she had never had when they were together. Tom was filled with an anxiety he could not understand.
He began to think that he saw her everywhere.
Even now, when he thought of her, it was her body that he missed. He wanted to touch her.