Anima
Etymology
Latin "anima" meant breath, then soul or life, twin to "animus," spirit or mind. It animates "animal," "animate," and "animism," the belief that things have souls. Jung borrowed it for the inner feminine element of the male psyche.
noun · /AN-ih-muh/
The animating soul or vital breath that makes a body alive; in Jung, the unconscious feminine side of a man.
What it names
The principle of life itself — the breath that, added to matter, makes it move.
Example
Old physiologists searched the body for the seat of the anima, certain that life must have a physical address.
Related idea
The breath-soul at the root of animism; to animate anything is, quite literally, to give it anima.