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• Cover
• Haltitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction and historical notes
• Part One: The Seven Gateways to the Underworld
• Prologue to Part One
• Chapter 1 Overcoming the Monster
• Chapter 2 The Monster (II) and the Thrilling Escape From Death
• Chapter 3 Rags to Riches
• Chapter 4 The Quest
• Chapter 5 Voyage and Return
• Chapter 6 Comedy
• Chapter 7 Comedy (II): The Plot Disguised
• Chapter 8 Tragedy (I): The Five Stages
• Chapter 9 Tragedy (II): The Divided Self
• Chapter 10 Tragedy (III): The Hero as Monster
• Chapter 11 Rebirth
• Chapter 12 The Dark Power: From Shadow into Light
• Epilogue to Part One: The Rule of Three (the role played in stories by numbers)
• Part Two: The Complete Happy Ending
• Prologue to Part Two
• Chapter 13 The Dark Figures
• Chapter 14 Seeing Whole: The Feminine and Masculine Values
• Chapter 15 The Perfect Balance
• Chapter 16 The Unrealised Value
• Chapter 17 The Archetypal Family Drama (Continued)
• Chapter 18 The Light Figures
• Chapter 19 Reaching the Goal
• Chapter 20 The Fatal Flaw
• Part Three: Missing The Mark
• Chapter 21 The Ego Takes Over (I): Enter the Dark Inversion
• Chapter 22 The Ego Takes Over (II): The Dark and Sentimental Versions
• Chapter 23 The Ego Takes Over (III): Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy
• Chapter 24 The Ego Takes Over (IV): Tragedy and Rebirth
• Chapter 25 Losing the Plot: Thomas Hardy – A Case History
• Chapter 26 Going Nowhere: The Passive Ego. The Twentieth-Century Dead End – From Chekhov to Close Encounters
• Chapter 27 Why Sex and Violence? The Active Ego. The Twentieth-Century Obsession: From de Sade to The Terminator
• Chapter 28 Rebellion Against ‘The One’: From Job to Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Chapter 29 The Mystery
• Chapter 30 The Riddle of the Sphinx: Oedipus and Hamlet
• Part Four: Why We Tell Stories
• Chapter 31 Telling Us Who We Are: Ego versus Instinct
• Chapter 32 Into the Real World: The Ruling Consciousness
• Chapter 33 Of Gods and Men: Reconnecting with ‘The One’
• Chapter 34 The Age of Loki: The Dismantling of the Self
• Epilogue: The Light and the Shadows on the Wall
• Author’s Personal Note
• Glossary of Terms
• Bibliography
• Index of Stories Cited
• General Index
• Footnotes
• eCopyright