| Translator's Note | |
| Note of Acknowledgments | |
| List of Illustrations | |
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Pt. I | The Mythological Stages in the Evolution of Consciousness | |
| A | The Creation Myth | |
| I | The Uroboros | 5 |
| II | The Great Mother | 39 |
| III | The Separation of the World Parents: The Principle of Opposites | 102 |
| B | The Hero Myth | |
| I | The Birth of the Hero | 131 |
| II | The Slaying of the Mother | 152 |
| III | The Slaying of the Father | 170 |
| C | The Transformation Myth | |
| I | The Captive and the Treasure | 195 |
| II | Transformation, or Osiris | 220 |
| Pt. II | The Psychological Stages in the Development of Personality | |
| A | The Original Unity | |
| Centroversion and Ego Formation | 261 |
| The Ego Germ in the Original Uroboric Situation | 266 |
| Development of the Ego out of the Uroboros | 275 |
| Centroversion in Organisms on the Uroboric Level | 286 |
| Centroversion, Ego, and Consciousness | 293 |
| Further Phases of Ego Development | 306 |
| B | The Separation of the Systems | |
| Centroversion and Differentiation | 315 |
| The Fragmentation of Archetypes | 320 |
| Exhaustion of Emotional Components: Rationalization | 321 |
| Secondary Personalization | 335 |
| The Transformation of Pleasure-Pain Components | 342 |
| The Formation of Authorities within the Personality | 349 |
| The Synthetic Function of the Ego | 356 |
| C | The Balance and Crisis of Consciousness | |
| Compensation of the Separated Systems: Culture in Balance | 363 |
| The Schism of the Systems: Culture in Crisis | 381 |
| D | Centroversion and the Stages of Life | |
| Prolongation of Childhood and Differentiation of Consciousness | 397 |
| Activation of Collective Unconscious and Ego Changes in Puberty | 407 |
| Self-Realization of Centroversion in the Second Half of Life | 409 |
| App. I The Group and the Great Individual | 421 |
| App. II Mass Man and the Phenomena of Recollectivization | 436 |
| Bibliography | 445 |
| Index | 461 |
Format: Paperback, 418 pages
