ABSTRACT
Unceasing dynamic interaction between inner and outer worlds – in this case more specifically the interaction between what is held inside the individual psyche and what is manifested outwardly in the civic/political life of the community – has in the last decade of the twentieth century bred a new archetypal image: that of the conjoined Reasonable Woman/Reasonable Man. Although new, the archetype of the Reasonable Woman/Reasonable Man is a variant of one of the most fundamental of all archetypes: the Coniunctio Oppositorum (Latin for the joining together of the opposites), as is described with such subtlety and complexity by C.G. Jung in The Psychology of the Transference (CW 16: 163–323).
