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Index
Cover
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
eCopyright
Footnotes
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