What is a myth? -- Our personal crises in myths -- In search of our roots -- Myth and memory -- Freud and the mystery of myths -- The great myth of the new land -- Individualism and our age of narcissism -- Gatsby and the American dream -- The therapist and the journey into hell -- Peer Gynt : a man's problem in loving -- Briar Rose revisited -- Faust : the myth of patriarchal power -- Goethe's Faust and the Enlightenment -- Faust in the twentieth century -- The devil and creativity -- The great circle of love.