A lucid and provocative synthesis of Jungian psychology with the discoveries of ethology and sociobiology: a step beyond Ardrey and Morris into a wider science.



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.