ABSTRACT
The Lamb, described by peter Gabriel's biographer Spencer Bright as "a surreal tale of sex, violence and death", is a polarizing album. Historian Andreas Killen observes that the "generational and oedipal conflicts" of the 1960s "were, for the most part, politically stillborn" in the 1970s; but the 1960s' "cultural revolutions" in "music, film, sensibilities, and lifestyles" continued to play itself out through the decade. C. G. Jung's theory was influenced by the work of the early twentieth-century psychologist William James, especially by James's groundbreaking work The Varieties of Religious Experience, first published in 1902. Rael's psychological adventures may be seen as an example of what authors Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman have termed snapping, which Killen defines as "the sudden and complete transformation of the self" under the pressure of the teachings and coercion techniques of religious and political cults.
