Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation

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Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword

Introduction

PART I: MAN AND MYTH

Chapter I: The Necessity of Rites

• The Functions of Mythology
• Myth and the Development of the Individual
• Myths for the Future

Chapter II: Myth through Time

• The Surface and Substance of Myth
• The Birth of Myth: Primitive and Early Societies
• The Birth of East and West: The High Cultures

PART II: LIVING MYTH

Chapter III: Society and Symbol

• The Mechanism of Myths: How Symbols Work
• Society, Myth, and Personal Development
• The Ego: East and West

Chapter IV: Myth and the Self

• Jung and the Polarities of Personality
• The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious

Chapter V: Personal Myth

• Jung: What Myth Do I Live By?
• The Functions of Mythology in Tradition and Today

PART III: THE HERO'S JOURNEY

Chapter VI: The Self as Hero

PART IV: DIALOGUES

Chapter VII: Dialogues

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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