ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a precis of the central tenets of archetypal psychology's sense of image. In an attempt to search the archetypalist literature for articles germane to criminal profiling, one would be far more likely to find articles that speak directly to the acts of the perpetrators than to the practice of forensic investigation. The choice of archetypal psychology as a name draws from C. G. Jung's later works, which had a greater focus on societal, collective, and extra-therapeutic issues. James Hillman explains the central concept of H. Corbin's contribution: The mundus archetypalis is the mundus imaginalis. Corbin's ideas have had a profound effect on many scholars and clinicians within the archetypal tradition as well as on the periphery. Hillman states that "the datum with which archetypal psychology begins is the image". Archetypalist perspectives have a great deal to say regarding the depths of depravity that appear in the human psyche.
