The Origins and History of Consciousness

Translator's Note vi
Note of Acknowledgement vi
List of Illustrations xi
Foreword by C.G. Jung xiii
Introduction xv

Part 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 Fater 170

C: THE TRANSFORMATION MYTH
I The Captive and the Treasure 195
II Transformation, or Osiris 220

PART II: THE PYSCHOLOGICAL STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY
A: THE ORIGINAL UNITY
Controversion 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 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

APPENDICES
I The Group and the Great Individual 421
II Mass Man and the Phenomena of Recollectivization 436

Bibliography 445
Index 461