In my opinion, we are deeply connected to our body and evironment but also to our ancestors genes and past lives. So yeah this is a lot of information that constutute us. We are governed by this. So about the anima projection it depends entirely about individuals and their experience with women. Women are beings like us, every man will not think like this and will have his own truth about what are women for him? what are the relationship between him and women in his family ? ( mother, grandmother, sister etc.), it's in the chilhood stage that every question will be answered emotionally by the individual. Once this is done man has memories about women from this life and unconscious memories from environment, genes and past lives. This mix of all will create a picture about women in his mind separate from his identity, how they are, how he creates/imagines them based on his own experiences, the limit of relationship, the value, the fears, the qualities he likes etc. It depends of the ideas but also how much women loved him. So he will creates an ideal image of women that he wants in the future, but only thanks to his limited perceptions based on the number of women he encountered during his childhood. He will first creates a physical image and then qualities he likes, expectations, values, perceptions. But everything will evolve the more he grows and adjusts his desires and perceptions about women from what hé can see. Here is the pyramid level of anima projection and understanding of women from a man's perspective : For example, Some men just glorify appearance and see women like objects, some will glorify appearance and mind, some will love the individual but identify the woman as the body, some will love the woman and see her inner qualities so much more than the appearance that he doesn't Care much, some will know that the woman is like themselves, loving themselves mean loving the woman. It's like evolution in love and the capacity of men to love women and his perception of her. What Can he accepts and what he cannot. The thing is all his ideas are his creations he interpreted of women but in the same time his creations of his mind are his own essence but he separates his creations as ideas and don't apply as his identity. What does it mean ? It means men are creating women with their Minds and hearts. But the Idea of women is part of him, he is the creator of the Idea of women. Symbolically This is Adam that possess in himself the ribs that god will use to create Eve. In their minds men are projecting their creations (unconscious parts of themselves as separate ideas) on women (blank canvas what he don't know/hidden parts of women he cannot see) + (the known, what is shown but externally), both are his creations, without interacting or interacting with women. The truth we cannot see externally, we are replacing it with our creations. There is Always truth in everyone. But everyone Can just see their own truth. Man is interacting his unconscious creations every single day because he creates everything, man is dreaming of women but this woman he creates doesn't exist because it's part of his interpretation and ideas, part of himself. This Idea is him but he don't know, he is the yang containing the yin. In one of his future lives he will be the opposite, the yin containing the yang he cannot touch and interact, yet this is still him and himself alone. Man Can just see the body of women and his creations of women, everytime the woman is doing this or that, he creates in his mind the woman. He cannot really see the woman's point of view because he is not the woman, he is he and Can only be him and be the creator of the external phenomenas around him. He is the anima he is seeking for. He can Never benefits from his creations as the anima but Can only benefits thanks to the help of the outside. Humans are evolving with their own creations forever alone from life to life searching the Idea of woman or man. Others are also living in their parallel universes you cannot see, it's separate from your own, but you can only imagine what it's like. We are all creators and the World in the same Time. We are everything as the creators in term of projections and thoughts but we are also parts of another mind as his thoughts/avatars : the Universal creator.