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Index
Introduction and historical notes
Prologue to Part One
Overcoming the Monster
2 The Monster (II) and the Thrilling Escape From Death
3 Rags to Riches
4 The Quest
5 Voyage and Return
6 Comedy
7 Comedy (II): The Plot Disguised
8 Tragedy (I): The Five Stages
9 Tragedy (II): The Divided Self
10 Tragedy (III): The Hero as Monster
11 Rebirth
12 The Dark Power: From Shadow into Light
Epilogue to Part One: The Rule of Three (the role played in stories by numbers)
Prologue to Part Two
The Dark Figures
14 Seeing Whole: The Feminine and Masculine Values
15 The Perfect Balance
16 The Unrealised Value
17 The Archetypal Family Drama (Continued)
18 The Light Figures
19 Reaching the Goal
20 The Fatal Flaw
The Ego Takes Over (I): Enter the Dark Inversion
22 The Ego Takes Over (II): The Dark and Sentimental Versions
23 The Ego Takes Over (III): Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy
24 The Ego Takes Over (IV): Tragedy and Rebirth
25 Losing the Plot: Thomas Hardy -A Case History
26 Going Nowhere: The Passive Ego. The Twentieth-Century Dead End - From Chekhov to Close Encounters
27 Why Sex and Violence? The Active Ego. The Twentieth-Century Obsession: From de Sade to The Termin
28 Rebellion Against `The One': From Job to Nineteen Eighty-Four
29 The Mystery
30 The Riddle of the Sphinx: Oedipus and Hamlet
Telling Us Who We Are: Ego versus Instinct
32 Into the Real World: The Ruling Consciousness
33 Of Gods and Men: Reconnecting with `The One'
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
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tales. Their well-springs are certainly numerous ... their meanings - if ever they had meanings - ar
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hero comes to a kingdom which is being ravaged by a dragon and, like Perseus, finds a beautiful Prin
There were, for instance, many of those melodramatic tales beloved of the nineteenth century which m
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