| PREFACE: Descendus ad Inferos
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| 1. Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning
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| 2. Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of Analysis
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| 2.1 Normal and Revolutionary Life: Two Prosaic Stories
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| 2.1.1 Normal Life
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| 2.1.2 Revolutionary Life
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| 2.2 Neuropsychological Function: The Nature of Mind
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| 2.2.1 The Valence of Things
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| 2.2.2 Unexplored Territory: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology
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| 2.2.3 Exploration: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology
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| 2.2.4 Explored Territory: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology
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| 2.3 Mythological Representation: The Constituent Elements of Experience
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| 2.3.1 Introduction
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| 2.3.2 The Enuma elish: A Comprehensive Exemplar of Narrative Categorization
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| 2.3.3 The Dragon of Primordial Chaos
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| 2.3.4 The Great Mothers: Images of the Unknown, or Unexplored Territory
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| 2.3.5 The Divine Son: Images of the Knower, the Exploratory Process
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| 2.3.6 The Great Father: Images of the Know, or Explored Territory
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| 3. Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map
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| 4. The Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared Map
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| 4.1 Introduction: The Paradigmatic Structure of the Known
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| 4.2 Particular Forms of Anomaly
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| 4.2.1 The Strange
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| 4.2.2 The Stranger
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| 4.2.3 The Strange Idea
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| 4.2.4 The Revolutionary Hero
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| 4.3 The Rise of Self-Reference: and the Permanent Contamination of Anomaly with Death
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| 5. The Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the Unknown
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| 5.1 Introduction: The Hero and the Adversary
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| 5.2 The Adversary: Emergence, Development and Representation
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| 5.2.1 The Adversary in Action: Voluntary Degradation of the Map of Meaning
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| 5.2.2 The Adversary in Action: A Twentieth Century Analogy
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| 5.3 Heroic Adaptation: Voluntary Reconstruction of the Map of Meaning
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| 5.3.1 The Creative Illness and the Hero
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| 5.3.2 The Alchemical Procedure and the Philosopher's Stone
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| 5.3.2.1 Introductory Note
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| 5.3.2.2 "The Material World" as Archaic "Locus of the Unknown"
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| 5.3.2.3 Episodic Representation in Medieval Christendom
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| 5.3.2.4 The Prima Materia
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| 5.3.2.5 The King of Order
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| 5.3.2.6 The Queen of Chaos
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| 5.3.2.7 The Peregrination
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| 5.3.2.8 The Conjunction
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| 5.4 Conclusion: The Divinity of Interest
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| 5.4.1 Introduction
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| 5.4.1 The Divinity of Interest
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| Notes
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| References
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| Permissions
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| Index
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