Efnisyfirlit

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Epigraph
• Translator’s Note
• Note of Acknowledgment
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword by C. G. JUNG
• Introduction
• Part I: The Mythological Stages in the Evolution of Consciousness
• A: The Creation Myth
• I. The Uroboros
• II. The Great Mother
• III. The Separation of the World Parents: The Principle of Opposites
• B: The Hero Myth
• I. The Birth of the Hero
• II. The Slaying of the Mother
• III. The Slaying of the Father
• C: The Transformation Myth
• I. The Captive and the Treasure
• II. Transformation, or Osiris
• Part II: The Psychological Stages in the Development of Personality
• A: The Original Unity
• Centroversion and Ego Formation
• The Ego Germ in the Original Uroboric Situation
• Development of the Ego out of the Uroboros
• Centroversion in Organisms on the Uroboric Level
• Centroversion, Ego, and Consciousness
• Further Phases of Ego Development
• B: The Separation of the Systems
• Centroversion and Differentiation
• The Fragmentation of Archetypes
• Exhaustion of Emotional Components: Rationalization
• Secondary Personalization
• The Transformation of Pleasure-Pain Components
• The Formation of Authorities within the Personality
• The Synthetic Function of the Ego
• C: The Balance and Crisis of Consciousness
• Compensation of the Separated Systems: Culture in Balance
• The Schism of the Systems: Culture in Crisis
• D: Centroversion and the Stages of Life
• Prolongation of Childhood and Differentiation of Consciousness
• Activation of Collective Unconscious and Ego Changes in Puberty
• Self-Realization of Centroversion in the Second Half of Life
• Appendices
• I. The Group and the Great Individual
• II. Mass Man and the Phenomena of Recollectivization
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the author