 The anima is the archetype of life and it is, when the anima is negative, it is the impulse to dream about life and to make wishful fantasies about life instead of living life. And that's why vampires and draculas and the creatures alike always suck one's blood. The blood is the emotional active psyche in us, the affect psyche. And such people have no activity left or no life activity left. They just sink into a passive wishful dream. The dream tries to tell me it's a ghost which is haunting me because actually it's haunted, not by reality, it's haunted by a fantasy which is draining his whole psychic energy. At the end of the dream the man's unable to escape from the vampire that's going to suck the blood out of him. How would you interpret that? That is really the characteristic of most negative or split-off complexes. If we reject or split-off some complex of our psyche then it begins to sap our energy secretly behind our back so to speak. And then it turns slowly into what is aptly represented by the image of the vampire, something which attacks us in the night and sucks all our blood. People feel they don't know, they come into analysis and they say, I feel listless, I just feel tired, I just don't want to do anything. I wake up already in the morning depressed, nothing means anything to me anymore. We could answer to them, you are probably sucked by a vampire, you are bloodless, you have no life impulse, no pleasure in life anymore, no interest or anything. And then you generally find that this vampire is just a split-off complex which has been split-off so radically and so powerfully that it can only sap energy anymore, it cannot manifest in any other way anymore. Why are the movies about death goddesses and vampires so popular? I think all movies which touch essential psychological facts, the movies nowadays more or less replace the fairy tale telling and the myth telling. It's our modern form of myth and fairy tales and therefore movies which tell about the inner world like fairy tales are much more attractive to the public because we really need myths to have an orientation or to have mapping out the dream world or the unconscious. And in past time there were the innumerable myths of vampires which fascinated people. Tales retold all over the world, in China for instance you have a whole host of ghost stories where a man meets a fox and then the fox turns up, is really the ghost of a dead and turns up as a beautifully made-up girl and he has a marvelous life with her till one day he discovers that she is an evil demon, she is a skeleton and then sometimes he dents a badge, he pulls him into death or he can with the help of priests and magicians free himself from the demon. And we for instance in the Swiss Alps we have stories that our cowherds high up in the mountain who have to live there the whole summer alone without having women. Every night the doggily comes, that is a female ghost comes through the door invisibly and rides them all the night so that they have sexual pollutions and in the morning they wake up completely exhausted and can't practically move anymore. Overwhelmed so to speak by sexual fantasies and by the unlived life. If the man's feelings are locked in to the mother complex, if his life is being sucked away by the vampire, then how can he transform those feelings? How can he get free of the mother complex? I once met the dream of a young man who was living still with mama, he was 29 and had never had a girl in his room and so we seriously discussed the possibility of getting a room outside his mother's home and he was terrified. He was a very sensitive, delicate boy and his mother was a very brutal, strong personality and he was just terrified of the moment to tell mother, look here I am going to take a room outside and I'm not going to live with you anymore. And when he was kind of trying to make up his mind he dreamt that he had to slay the dragon. So in that case it means actually that though it seems such a to us little thing to tell mother I have to room, for him that was slaying the dragon. It was overcoming a monstrous neurotic difficulty within himself. His whole mother complex not only facing the scene of his actual mother but overcoming also the inertia and anxiousness of his own mother complex. His mother had sold in him an anxiousness of fear of life. He had to overcome a terrific fear of life to make that step. And that is an archetypal motive all over the place that the young man has to do the heroic deed of killing his mother or the mother dragon or the mother demon which is what is anxious or lazy or afraid of living a masculine life.