Living Archetypes The selected orks of Anthony Stevens [Hardcover]

Anthony Stevens has devoted a lifetime to modernizing our understanding of the archetypes within us, relating them to conceptual developments in a variety of scientific disciplines, such as the patterns of behaviour of behavioural ecology, the species-specific behavioural systems of Bowlbys attachment theory, the deep structures of Chomskian linguistics, and the modules of evolutionary psychology, to name but a few.

This selection of papers and chapters from the course of Stevens career, all lucidly written and argued, highlight episodes in the progress of his quest to place archetypal theory on a sound scientific foundation. As a whole, Living Archetypesexamines how archetypes are activated in the life history of all of us, how archetypal imperatives may be fulfilled or thwarted by our living circumstances, how they manifest in our dreams, symbols, fantasies and symptoms, and how appreciating their dynamics can generate insights of enormous therapeutic power.

Living Archetypes: The Selected Works of Anthony Stevensprovides an invaluable resource for Jungian psychotherapists, psychologists, academics and students committed to extending the evolutionary approach to psychology and psychiatry and understanding the dynamic significance of archetypes.

Introduction. Personal Introduction to Archetype: A Natural History of the Self(1982). Attachment Behaviour, Separation Anxiety, and Stranger Anxiety in Polymatrically Reared Infants in The Origins of Human Social Relations, edited by H.R. Schaffer (1971), London and New York: Academic Press. The Mother, from Archetype: A Natural History of the Self (1982). On the Frustration of Archetypal Intent, from Archetype: A Natural History of the Self (1982). Attenuation of the mother-child bond and male initiation into adult life, Journal of Adolescence (1981), 4, 131-148. From Jung: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford Unl£‡