The Lost ThemeWE LIVE ON IMAGES. As human beings we know our bodies and our minds onlythrough what we can imagine. To grasp our humanity we need to structurethese images into metaphors and models. Writers, artists, and visionaries havealways known this---as have philosophers and scientists in other ways. Depthpsychologists, however, take on the special and perhaps impossible task ofbringing order to this dazzling array of images and the equally impressive rangeof feelings associated with them. To create this order, psychologists and social theorists make their own choicesof models or paradigms. We, too, require prior structures that seem relativelyreliable as guides and maps to the terrain of imagery and feeling. In otherwords, psychologists do not simply interpret or analyze; we also construct; weengage in our own struggles around form. We are much concerned withnarrative, and we inevitably contribute to the narrative of whatever life weexamine. But something has gone seriously wrong with everyone's images and models.When we invoke God and the devil, dialectical materialism and the perfec-tibility of man, or libido and death instinct, we perceive something familiar andperhaps explanatory or even moving--but these images rarely lead to anexhilarating sense of illumination or truth. We have difficulty seeing ourselvesand our experienced work in the models handed down to us. At the same timewe feel nagged if not threatened by a new wave of millennial imagery---ofkilling, dying, and destroying on a scale so great as to end the human narrative.We sense that our models should address that threat, but we do not know just