Jung's notion of the shadow is relevant to new ideas of contrasexuality. When Jung got tired of listening to his students arguing over complexities of the shadow, he would proclaim that it is nothing more than the unconscious. Remembering that Anima and Animus are only archetypes of the unconscious, the shadow is that within us that lies unnoted, usually because of our upbringing.

This is not to say that a man's shadow is Eros, or that a woman's is Logos; the shadow is the balance to the way we live our lives. In these modern times, a woman's shadow may well contain parts of her lost femininity. Women who have grown up in an environment of achievers, for example, may need to recover some of their Eros. Men who have lost part of their masculinity in an effort to be related and sensitive are urged by their shadow to reclaim it.

While the Self is that which pushes us towards wholeness, the archetypes - Anima and Animus - are the ones that point us in the right direction.

The fact that many Logos characteristics in men, and Eros attributes in women, are undeveloped challenges the basic model of contrasexuality. This has brought most modern Analytical Psychologists to the conclusion that members of both sexes have stirring within them Animus, with its bright torch of logic and progress, and Anima, the constant reminder of our need for pleasure and relatedness.