The work of the Brothers Grimm --
The history of the tales --
The question of meaning --
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 --
An American Indian legend --
The Neolithic background --
The Paleolithic background --
The psychological base --
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 --
Mythologies of engagement and disengagement --
The flight between two thoughts --
The secularization of the sacred --
The tree in the garden --
Religions of relationship --
