I. Individuation and the stages of development : The inflated ego : Ego and self ; Inflation and original wholeness ; Adam and Prometheus ; Hybris and Nemesis -- The alienated ego : The ego-self axis and the psychic life cycle ; Despair and violence ; Alienation and the religious experience ; Restitution of the ego-self axis -- Encounter with self : The role of the collective ; The breakthrough ; The book of Job ; The individuated ego II. Individuation as a way of life : The search for meaning : The function of the symbol ; The concretistic and reductive fallacies ; The symbolic life -- Christ as paradigm of the individuated ego : The acceptance of separateness ; The ethical teaching ; The self-oriented ego ; Man as the image of God -- Being an individual : The A Priori existence of the ego ; The monad and the monogenes ; Unity and multiplicity -- The trinity archetype and the dialectic of development : The three and the four ; Transformation and development -- III. Symbols of the goal : Metaphysics and the unconscious ; Empirical metaphysics ; A series of metaphysical dreams ; Return to the beginning ; The transcendent dimension ; Completion of the opus -- The blood of Christ : Introduction ; The meaning of blood ; Christ and Dionysus ; Extraction by sacrifice ; Attributes of the blood of Christ ; Relations to alchemy ; Modern dreams -- The philosopher's stone : Introduction and text ; Transformation and revelation ; The fertility principle ; The union of opposites ; Ubiquity ; Spiritual food and the tree of life ; The one in the all.