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Index
Cover
Maps of Meaning
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Preface: Descensus ad Inferos
1. Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning
2. Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of Analysis
2.1 Normal and Revolutionary Life: Two Prosaic Stories
2.1.1 Normal Life
2.1.2 Revolutionary Life
2.2 Neuropsychological Function: The Nature of the Mind
2.2.1 The Valence of Things
2.2.2 Unexplored Territory: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology
2.2.3 Exploration: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology
2.2.4 Explored Territory: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology
2.3 Mythological Representation: The Constituent Elements of Experience
2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 The Enuma Elish: A Comprehensive Exemplar of Narrative Categorization
2.3.3 The Dragon of Primordial Chaos
2.3.4 The Great Mother: Images of the Unknown, or Unexplored Territory
2.3.5 The Divine Son: Images of the Knower, the Exploratory Process
2.3.6 The Great Father: Images of the Known, or Explored Territory
3. Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map
4. The Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared Map
4.1 Introduction: The Paradigmatic Structure of the Known
4.2 Particular Forms of Anomaly: The Strange, the Stranger, the Strange Idea and the Revolutionary Hero
4.2.1 The Strange
4.2.2 The Stranger
4.2.3 The Strange Idea
4.2.4 The Revolutionary Hero
4.3 The Rise of Self-reference, and the Permanent Contamination of Anomaly with Death
5. The Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the Unknown
5.1 Introduction: The Hero and the Adversary
5.2 The Adversary: Emergence, Development and Representation
5.2.1 The Adversary in Action: Voluntary Degradation of the Map of Meaning
5.2.2 The Adversary In Action: A Twentieth-Century Allegory
5.3 Heroic Adaptation: Voluntary Reconstruction of the Map of Meaning
5.3.1 The Creative Illness and the Hero
5.3.2 The Alchemical Procedure and the Philosopher's Stone
5.3.2.1 Introductory Note
5.3.2.2 The “Material World” as Archaic “Locus of the Unknown”
5.3.2.3 Episodic Representation in Medieval Christendom
5.3.2.4 The Prima Materia
5.3.2.5 The King of Order
5.3.2.6 The Queen of Chaos
5.3.2.7 The Peregrination
5.3.2.8 The Conjunction
Conclusion: The Divinity of Interest
Introduction
The Divinity of Interest
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