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 indistinctness where nothing can be discovered, but an indistinctness full of promises, the eloquent silence of the Gioconda - young and old, mother and daughter, of doubtful purity, with naive intelligence and childlike grace that disarm men. (Carl Gustav Jung) People sometimes believe that friendship remains, that only desire has faded. But this is not true. Sometimes 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 outlet, seeks a way to escape. (Alfred Adler) In the conscious thought 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 the sharpest contrast between the 'mother' and the 'whore' that will urge us to explore 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 into One. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]