Table of Content

Preface: Descensus ad Inferos 1. Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning 2. Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of Analysis Normal and Revolutionary Life: Two Prosaic Stories Neuropsychological Function: The Nature of the Mind Mythological Representation:The Constitutent Elements of Experience 3. Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map 4. The Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared Map Introduction: The Paradigmatic Structure of the Known Particular Forms of Anomaly The Rise of Self-Reference, and the Permanent Contamination of Anomaly with Death 5. The Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the Unknown Introduction: The Hero and the Adversary The Adversary: Emergence, Development and Representation Heroic Adaptation: Voluntary Reconstruction of the Map of Meaning Conclusion: The Divinity of Interest