Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Christian Roesler (*1967) is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Catholic University in Freiburg/D, Lecturer of Analytical Psychology at the University of Basel/CH and Associate Professor of Psychotherapy Sciences at the Sigmund Freud University/Austria. He is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Freiburg and member of the faculty of the C.G.Jung institutes in Stuttgart and Zürich. He has specializations in work with couples and families, applying interpretive research methods. He has research and publications on analytical psychology and contemporary sciences, couple counselling, postmodern identity construction, narrative research and media psychology.

1. Introduction 2. Definitions of archetype in Analytical Psychology 3. The theory of archetypes in Jung's work 4. Problems and criticism 5. Biology, genetics and inheritance 6. Anthropology 7, Religion 8. Prehistory 9. Mythology 10. Conclusion: The Core Theory- a theory of psychological transformation References

This important book offers a critical and timely reassessment of one of the cornerstones of analytical psychology, Jung's concept of archetypes.