Carl Jung: Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman,

Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image.

This image is fundamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of primordial origin engraved in the living organic system of the man, an imprint or “archetype” of all the ancestral experiences of the female, a deposit, as it were, of all the impressions ever made by woman-in short, an inherited system of psychic adaptation.

Even if no women existed, it would still be possible, at any given time, to deduce from this unconscious image exactly how a woman would have to be constituted psychically.

The same is true of the woman: she too has her inborn image of man. ~Carl Jung; “Marriage as a Psychological Relationship” (1925) In CW 17: The Development of the Personality. P.338