ABSTRACT
According to Samuels, the plural psyche is a concept necessary to both analytical and depth psychology to ‘hold unity and diversity in balance’, because pluralism is an ‘instrument to make sure that diversity need not be a basis for schismatic conflict’. Examining the plural and political psyche thus enabled him to work both within and outside of the consulting room, as a successful consultant for politicians, organisations, activist groups, etc. In contrast to Hillman, Samuels actively demonstrated ‘how useful and effective perspectives derived from psychotherapy might be in the formation of policy, in new ways of thinking about the political process and in the resolution of conflict’. Elizabeth Brodersen’s ‘Laws of Inheritance: An Archetypal Study of Twins’, examines the evolutionary development of two inheritance laws as archetypal, twin, overlapping, conflictual structures of socio-economic, distributive interaction: firstly, matrilineal (Eros) as inclusive, undifferentiated, horizontal, communal land usage, based on subsistence.
