The origins and history of consciousness - Neumann, Erich (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1954)
Part I. The Mythological Stages In The Evolution Of Consciousness : -- A. The Creation Myth -- I. The Uroboros -- II. The Great Mother -- III. The Separation of the World Parents: The Principle of Opposites -- B. The Hero Myth -- I. The Birth of the Hero -- II. The Slaying of the Mother -- III. The Slaying of the Fater -- C. The Transformation Myth -- I. The Captive and the Treasure -- II. Transformation, or Osiris -- Part II. The Pyschological Stages In The Development Of Personality : -- A. the Original Unity -- Controversion and Ego Formation -- The Ego Germ in the Original Uroboric Situation -- Development of the Ego out of the Uroboros -- Centroversion in Organisms on the Uroboric Level -- Centroversion, Ego, and Consciousness -- Further Phases of Ego Development -- B. The Separation Of The Systems -- Centroversion and Differentiation -- The Fragmentation of Archetypes -- Exhaustion of Emotional Components: Rationalization -- Secondary Personalization -- The Transformation of Pleasure-Pain Components -- The Formation of Authorities within the Personality -- The Synthetic Function of Ego -- C. The Balance And Crisis Of Consciousness -- Compensation of the Separated Systems: Culture in Balance -- The Schism of the Systems: Culture in Crisis -- D. Centroversion And The Stages Of Life -- Prolongation of Childhood and Differentiation of Consciousness -- Activation of Collective Unconscious and Ego Changes in Puberty -- Self-Realization of Centroversion in the Second Half of Life -- Appendices: -- I. The Group and the Great Individual -- II. Mass Man and the Phenomena of Recollectivization.
Keywords: Consciousness.Personality.Awareness.