COVER -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I The Mythological Stages in the Evolution of Consciousness -- A. The Creation Myth -- Chapter 1 THE UROBOROS -- Chapter 2 THE GREAT MOTHER -- Chapter 3 THE SEPARATION OF THE WORLD PARENTS: THE PRINCIPLE OF OPPOSITES -- B. The Hero Myth -- Chapter 1 THE BIRTH OF THE HERO -- Chapter 2 THE SLAYING OF THE MOTHER -- Chapter 3 THE SLAYING OF THE FATHER -- C. The Transformation Myth -- Chapter 1 THE CAPTIVE AND THE TREASURE -- Chapter 2 TRANSFORMATION, OR OSIRIS -- PART II The Psychological Stages in the Development of Personality -- A. The Original Unity -- Chapter 1 Centroversion and Ego Formation -- Chapter 2 The Ego Germ in the Original Uroboric Situation -- Chapter 3 Development of the Ego out of the Uroboros -- Chapter 4 Centroversion in Organimns on the Urobdc Level -- Chapter 5 Centroversion, Ego, and Consciousness -- Chapter 6 Further Phases of Ego Development -- B. The Separation of the Systems -- Chapter 1 Centroversion and Differentiation -- Chapter 2 The Fragmentation of Archetypes -- Chapter 3 Exhaustion of Emotional Components: Rationalization -- Chapter 4 Secondary Personalization -- Chapter 5 The Transformation of Pleasure-Pain Components -- Chapter 6 The Formation of Authorities within the Personality -- Chapter 7 The Synthetic Function of the Ego -- C. The Balance and Crisis of Consciousness -- Chapter 1 Compenation of the Separated Systems: Culture in Balance -- Chapter 2 The Schism of the Systems: Culture in Crisis -- D. Centroversion and the Stages of Life -- Chapter 1 Prolongation of Childhood and Diferentiation of Consiousness -- Chapter 2 Activation of Collective Unconscious and Ego Changes in Puberty -- Chapter 3 Self-Realization of Centroverston in the Second Half of Life -- APPENDICES -- THE GROUP AND THE GREAT INDIVIDUAL.

MASS MAN AND THE PHENOMENA OF RECOLLECTIVIZATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.