List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction3Pt. 1The Historical Context of C. G. Jung11Ch. 1The Problem of the Historical Jung13Ch. 2The Fin de Siecle27Ch. 3Freud, Haeckel, and Jung: Naturphilosophie, Evolutionary Biology, and Secular Regeneration40Ch. 4Fin-de-Siecle Occultism and Promises of Rebirth58Ch. 5Volkisch Utopianism and Sun Worship75Ch. 6Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido: Solar Mysticism as Science109Pt. 2Prelude to a Cult: Chronology and Biography139Ch. 7Spirits, Memory Images, and the Longing for Mystery: 1895-1907141Ch. 8Otto Gross, Nietzscheanism, and Matriarchal Neopaganism: 1908151Ch. 9The Mothers! The Mothers! It Sounds So Strangely Weird!: J. J. Bachofen, Otto Gross, Stefan George, and Jung161Ch. 10Visionary Excavations of the Collective Unconscious: 1909-1915177Ch. 11The Collective Unconscious, the God Within, and Wotan's Runes: 1916218Pt. 3The Jung Cult247Ch. 12The Silent Experiment in Group Psychology: 1916249Ch. 13The Secret Church: The Transmission of Charismatic Authority275Notes299Index377