Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 68)

PUBLISHED BY INNER CITY BOOKS 1995- WRITTEN BY JAMES HOLLIS Illustrates How Myths Reflect The Archetypal Roots Of Our Personal Psychology, And Explains How Ancient Drives Influence And Often Dominate Our Behavior--publisher's Description. Introduction: Because Being Here Amounts To So Much:the Services To Myth (the Cosmological Question ; The Metaphysical Question ; The Sociological Question ; The Psychological Question) -- Differing Approaches To Myth -- The Rag-and-bone Shop Of The Heart: The Mythos Of Modernism -- The Modern Sensibility (how Faust Became Faustian ; The Underground Man ; In The Heart Of Darkness ; Czech Mate ; After The Fall) -- The Eternal Return And The Heroic Quest: Eternal Return: Sacrifice, Death And Rebirth -- The Journey Of The Hero (the Heroic Journey ; The Psychological Meaning Of The Journey) -- Eating The Sun: The Spontaneous Generation Of Myth (the Iron Butterfly ; In A Dark Wood ; Eating The Sun) -- Tracking The Gods: The Mystery We Call God -- Adrift On The Cosmic Sea -- The Gods Astir: A Mythic Interlude: Liebestod Variations (admetis And Alcestis ; Philemon And Baucis ; Dido And Aeneas ; Glaucus ; Idomeneus ; Marsyas) -- Mystic Chords Of Memory: The Better Angels Of Our Nature -- Individuation And Relationship -- Afterword: Heart-work On All Of The Images. James Hollis. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Toward the end of his life, W. B. Yeats, the great poet of modernism, surveyed his career and the mythic dismantlement of his epoch, and concluded: Now that my ladder's gone,