The origins and history of consciousness

Paperbound; xxiv + 493 pp., including 31 black-and-white illustrations, two appendices, bibliographic references in footnotes, a bibliography, an index, and a 2-page biographical note on Erich Neumann. "The Origins and History of Consciousness" was originally published in German as "Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins" in 1949 by Rascher Verlag, Zurich Contents: Translator's Note / R.F.C. Hull Note of acknowledgment List of illustrations Foreword / 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 father C: The transformation myth I. The captive and the treasure 2. Transformation, or Osiris Part II: The psychological states in the development of personality A: The original unity Centroversion 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 Centrovesion 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 the 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 Erich Neumann (a biographical note)