Here is a remarkably lucid synthesis of C. G. Jung's basic ideas. Jung's most far-reaching achievement was the discovery of the collective unconscious - the central source of life energy and the repository of the patterns and images of all the world's religions and mythologies. And since modern men are in desperate need of suprapersonal meaning, their psychological health will depend upon a conscious encounter between the ego and these archetypal symbols. Such is the purpose of this gripping book, for it is nothing less than a journey through art, religion, legend, and folklore into the deepest regions of the psyche. Throughout, its overriding aim is to call forth that dialogue between ego and archetype which alone can offer meaning to the contemporary world.