In an effort to stimulate the fertilization of psychoanalytic theory with the Jungian ideas of the analytical psychologists, the author points out that much current psychoanalytic work is arriving at some of Jung's earlier ideas by different paths; consequently there is value in gaining familiarity with some of Jung's ideas rather than ignoring all of his work. Jackson acknowledges the validity of much of the criticism of Jung's many inconsistencies and weaknesses; he then proceeds to discuss what he thinks is the most important of Jung's concepts, the archetype. Though it is a metapsychological concept in the freudian sense, its imagery is a matter of observation and interpretation. The author provides an interesting case illustration of a typical archetypal experience. The chief value of the archetype model in practice is in giving a theoretical basis to the transference as a shared experience of more profound origin than is explained by