(P/B) THE ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Παρουσίαση

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great Mother, Separation of the World Parents, Birth of the Hero, Slaying of the Dragon, Rescue of the Captive, and Transformation and Deification of the Hero. Throughout the sequence, the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness.
Featuring a foreword by Jung, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and enduring work. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Translator's Note - R.F.C. Hull
Note of Acknowledgement
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 Fater
C: THE TRANSFORMATION MYTH
I The Captive and the Treasure
II Transformation, or Osiris
PART II: THE PYSCHOLOGICAL STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY
A: THE ORIGINAL UNITY
Controversion 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 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