139835
9780140167931
"Much of the novel is devoted to ...analysis....The analysis is predictable Jung, with all the archetypes turning up eventually: the person, the shadow, the anima, etc. Mr. Davies is didactically faithful in explaining each, and while the novel is thus a kind of Jungian primer, he uses the archetypes as a structure on which to build David's [the protagonist's] story. Mr. Davies' message to us all is that we must come to grips with the objectivity of life, otherwise we live in the middle of a great hallucination.Davies, Robertson is the author of 'Manticore' with ISBN 9780140167931 and ISBN 0140167935.
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