Volume 44, Number 9 · May 29, 1997
The Last Wilderness
By Charles Rycroft
Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming
by Anthony Stevens
Harvard University Press, 385 pp., $15.95 (paper)
In 1982 the British psychiatrist Anthony Stevens published Archetype, a book in which he attempted to reconcile two psychological theories that were then, and still are, usually considered incompatible: Jung's concept of archetypes (which holds that there exist certain psychic images, such as that of the mother, that are innate and universal) and John Bowlby's ethologically based attachment theory (which holds that such images are imprinted in the early stages of development, as when Konrad Lorenz imprinted his image on motherless ducklings).[1]
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