The fairy tale -- The work of the Brothers Grimm -- The types of story -- The history of the tales -- The question of meaning -- Bios and mythos -- Sociological and psychological schools of interpretation -- The biological function of myth -- The image of a second birth -- The anxiety of the misborn -- Primitive man as metaphysician -- Tender- and tough-minded thinking -- The image and its meaning -- Imagery of the manifold and its "cause" -- The "cause" understood as absolutely unknown -- Theology as a misreading of mythology -- Esoteric and exoteric anthropology -- Mythogenesis -- An American Indian legend -- The Neolithic background -- The Paleolithic background -- The psychological base -- The personal factor -- The symbol without meaning -- The impact of modern science -- The mythic forms of archaic civilization -- The Neolithic-Paleolithic contrast -- Problem of the new symbol emergent -- The shaman and the priest -- The wild gander -- Mythologies of engagement and disengagement -- The flight between two thoughts -- The secularization of the sacred -- The tree in the garden -- Religions of identity -- Religions of relationship -- The European graft -- Eros, agape, amor -- The Western individual.
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