Latin anima means "mind, passion, courage, anger, spirit, feeling, living essence" from a PIE root *ane- "to breathe", whence also animal and animation.

• In Christian contexts, the Latin word was used to translate Greek psykhe, rendered in English as soul (as opposed to spirit).
• According to Carl Jung, the anima is the feminine side of a man's personal unconsciousness.

• An album by rock band Tool is named Ænima, partly in reference to Jung's concept of "anima"

• Anima was a kind of 16th c. personal armour.
• Gum anima, or gum animae, a kind of gum or resin

in popular culture:

• Anima banners are one of the signs of power in White Wolf's RPGs Exalted and Aberrant.
• +Anima is also a manga series by Natsumi Mukai.
• Anima is also the name of an aeon (a summoned creature) in the video games Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2.
• Anima also is a type of relics in the video games Xenosaga/Xenogears.
• Anima is also a combination of the four elements in many of the Fire Emblem series of video games.
• Anima was also the title of a comic book published by DC Comics. It ran for 15 issues from March, 1994.
• Anima is also an album released in 2001 by the electronic musician Vladislav Delay.
• AnimA the JK2 player.

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