  We introduce two shearlet-based Ginzburg--Landau energies, based on the
continuous and the discrete shearlet transform. The energies result from
replacing the elastic energy term of a classical Ginzburg--Landau energy by the
weighted $L^2$-norm of a shearlet transform. The asymptotic behaviour of
sequences of these energies is analysed within the framework of
$\Gamma$-convergence and the limit energy is identified. We show that the limit
energy of a characteristic function is an anisotropic surface integral over the
interfaces of that function. We demonstrate that the anisotropy of the limit
energy can be controlled by weighting the underlying shearlet transforms
according to their directional parameter.
