Photographer-poet George J Nicholson marries photographs and words to symbolically express his personal discovery and intimate relationship to the proverbial 'Muse' – the Anima, as designated by psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. Nicholson shares insights he gleaned from the late Jungian analyst and author Robert A Johnson who made a lifelong study of the inner/outer complexities and dilemmas a man faces in managing his masculine psychology. According to Johnson, the dilemma stems from a man's experience of the 'Double Anima' – the synchronicity of the appearance of an alluring female and/or romantic relationship appearing in his life at critical times when response to interior creative urges arise. All too often, the 'Muse' is projected upon the flesh-and-blood woman the man is enamored by, thus muddling the human relationship and resulting in emotional drama and manifold psychological distress. This photo-poetic expose is thinly veiled autobiography, as the photographer and model, Bettina Covo, (appearing in his life when she did) catalyzed the 'Double Anima.' "Echoes and the Muse" is the result of Nicholson and Covo reviewing their photoshoot sixteen years later – a fascinating book to say the very least.