The Emptied Soul: On the Nature of the Psychopath (Classics in Archetypal Psychology)

Why do psychopaths exert such fascination? Do Eros and morality have some kind of connection with psychopathy? Are those feelings part of something in us that allows the most violent kind in our society to kill easily, or is there a recognition that we, too, have a touch of the psychopath lurking in us at all times? Yet in the popular mind, psychopathy only describes a disorder of the aggressive, antisocial criminal. The author reviews the field, gives an explanation of the main symptoms, suggests an approach to treatment, and then presents a new vision: psychopathy is not so much a deficiency of morality as it is crippled Eros.