ABSTRACT

Commonly dismissed as mystical by scientists, archetypes were described by Jung as biological entities, which have evolved through natural selection, and which, if they exist at all, must be amenable to empirical study. Anthony Stevens has discovered the key to opening up this long-ignored scientific approach to the archetype.

chapter |18 pages

Personal Introduction

part 1|58 pages

Archetypes in Theory

chapter 1|8 pages

Jung and the Ethologists

chapter 2|10 pages

Archetypes and Meaning

chapter 3|9 pages

The Archetypal Hypothesis

chapter 4|14 pages

Archetypes and Behaviour

chapter 5|15 pages

Archetypes and Experience

part 2|167 pages

Archetypes in Practice

chapter 6|6 pages

The Family

chapter 7|19 pages

The Mother

chapter 8|6 pages

The Father

chapter 9|30 pages

On the Frustration of Archetypal Intent

chapter 10|34 pages

Personal Identity and the Stages of Life

chapter 11|36 pages

The Archetypal Masculine and Feminine

chapter 12|34 pages

Shadow

The Archetypal Enemy

part 3|51 pages

Synthesis and Integration

chapter 13|29 pages

On Being in Two Minds

chapter 14|20 pages

A Question of Balance