‘I’ve been seeing her in my dreams… vivid dreams… scary dreams’
- the ongoing problem with Anima and the Mother

The six films, divided into two trios, offer us three versions of the quest, with Vader’s story across the six films forming the third. In each, the possibilities for masculine consciousness are constellated differently. The ego is not in any of the three quests able to find a comfortable relationship with Anima. Luke cannot find full relationship with Leia but does at least find stability in that relationship and with the Mother. Anakin demands to have both Mother and Anima. His mother complex interferes with the Anima relationship to the extent that neither he nor Padmé can survive. Taken across all the movies, his transition to the function of Shadow in Episode IV, makes him the express opponent and covert ally of Anima, a dynamic to which I return below. In Episode VI he uses Leia to draw Luke into battle (‘Your feelings have now betrayed her too… if you will not turn to the Dark Side, then perhaps she will’), and then uses Luke to make peace with her (‘tell your sister… you were right’); but there is to be no ongoing relationship and these are his dying words.