Jung's archetype of the feminine within a man. Tamir argues Murakami's thinly drawn women are anima figures, messengers who lead the protagonist to something mostly within himself.
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The reason these women are sort of written in a shallow way is because they're not actually women, are they? These are Jungian animas.
- Women as divine messengers
Murakami's women work like Athena disguised before Telemachus: messengers who send the protagonist to discover something, usually within himself, which explains why they can seem thinly…