Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi

Part I

The Hero 17
Who is He, or She, the Hero? 19
The Hero Ideal 23
Hero and Shadow 26
The Sun and the Sword, the Moon and the Mirror 32
The Nixie of the Mill-Pond 37
The Hero Myth 47
The Myth of Perseus 48
The Hero Unfolds 57
The Departure 57
The King 59
Parents and Birth 62
The Hardships of the Hero 64
The King and the Fisherman 66
Layers of the Unconscious 67
The Treasure 73
The Old Principle 74
The Beehive and the Ram 74

Part II

The Shadow 81
The Shadow and the Hero 87
A Shadow of Many Faces 90
The Undifferentiated Void 90
Ego Formation and the Face of the Shadow 92
Shadow, Persona and Projection 94
Projection 96
Passive Projection 97
Active Projection 99
Identifcation 100

The Enemy 103
Ego and Shadow 104
Amalek – The Wicked Warrior 106
Evil Deception 110
Archetypal Identifcation and Denial 111
Samson – The Impoverished Sun 113
Jacob and the Divine Adversary 118
The Hill of Evil Counsel 125
The Setting Sun 127
Caiaphas, the Fathers and Collective Consciousness 129
The Fathers 131
Law of the Fathers, Grace of the Son 136
The Hero Betrayed: Personal Greed or Archetypal Scheme? 141
Compassion at the Court of Collective Consciousness 149
The Cripple 153
Wounds and Eros 154
Hephaestus 155
From Mars to Eros 157
Following the Wound 160
The Wounded Healer 165
The Case of Dr. D. and Mrs. M. 166
The Cripple and the Wound 177
H. C. Andersen: The Cripple 178
Death – The Archetypal Cripple 190
Death’s Messengers 192
The Beggar 197
Faceless Interiority 198
The Beggar Healer 203
At the Gateway to the Self 207
The Way Home 213
Bibliography 227
Index 235