"Where contemporary circumstances permit the archetypal needs of the two million-year-old to be fulfilled, the result is that form of psychic adjustment we call health, but where contemporary circumstances frustrate the archetypal needs of the two million-year-old, the result is maladjustment and illness." (Anthony Stevens, 1993, p. xiv)
For all of us, he concludes, acceptance, empathy, bonding, and affiliation with this aboriginal Self residing in our psyches is the key to adaptation and health. (ibid, p. xv)
no, I'd say, dear Stevens, you wrote those lines before Anthropocene was even noted, and it's too late, and I'd say, a la Kurtz, the horror ... the horror ...
