Anima, Animus, archetype, Carl Gustav Jung, feminism, gender, identity, psychoanalysis, Remedios Varo, surrealism, symbol, woman.

The aim of the paper is to examine the place of gender in the context of surrealism, to analyze its consequences for women surrealist artists, and to document how these artists dealt with the situation personally,and especially in their images (artworks). The authors focus on a particular case - the life and work of Remedios Varo. They interpret Varo's painting Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst's Office with the aim to identify gender dynamics of the images to be found in this artwork and to show how gender operates on this 'symbolic' level. In the process of interpretation, Jung's explanation of Anima-Animus archetype is taken into account. The interpretation shows that Remedios Varo significantly contributed to the feminist critique of psychoanalysis and reinterpretation of Jung's Anima-Animus archetype. The examination of gender dynamics indicates that individual, social and symbolic aspects of gender are interconnected and mutually influencing one another in the construction of the (individual) gender identity.