Translator's Note ix Foreword xi Mircea Eliade Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii I Phantasms at Work History of Phantasy 3(25) On the Inner Sense 3(8) Some Preliminary Considerations 3(3) The Phantasmic Pneuma 6(5) Flux and Reflux of Values in the Twelfth Century 11(12) Acculturation of the West 13(8) How a Woman... 21(2) The Vehicle of the Soul and Prenatal Experience 23(5) Empirical Psychology and the Deep Psychology of Eros 28(25) The Empirical Psychology of Ficino and Its Sources 28(4) The Art of Memory 32(6) The Phantasmic Eros and the Appeasement of Desire 38(3) Phantasms at Work 41(1) The Depth Psychology of Ficino 42(11) Descent of the Soul 42(4) Melancholy and Saturn 46(7) Dangerous Liaisons 53(34) Pico della Mirandola, Continuator of Ficino 53(5) The Ambiguous Gods of Eros 58(29) Giordano Bruno, a Man of the Phantasmic Past 58(2) Scandal in London 60(5) Mnemonic Phantasms 65(2) Ambiguity of Eros 67(3) At the Heart of Bruno's Doctrine 70(7) Actaeon 77(2) Diana 79(4) The Parable of the Nine Blind Men 83(1) Circe 84(3) II The Great Manipulator Eros and Magic 87(20) Identity of Substance, Identity of Process 87(2) Manipulation of Masses and of Individuals 89(6) Vinculum Vinculorum 95(4) Ejaculation and Retention of Semen 99(3) Of Magic as General Psychosociology 102(5) Pneumatic Magic 107(23) The Starting Point of Magic 107(1) ``Subjective'' Magic and ``Transitive'' Magic 108(3) The Conspiracy of Things 111(6) The Theory of Radiations 117(10) Pneumatic Magic 127(3) Intersubjective Magic 130(14) Intrasubjective Magic 130(7) Intersubjective Magic 137(7) Higher Presences 138(3) The Lures 141(1) Propitious Times 142(2) Demonomagic 144(35) Some Concepts of Demonology 144(4) Demons and Eros 148(3) Witches and Demoniacs 151(5) Demonomagic from Ficino to Giordano Bruno 156(23) Classifications of Magic 156(6) Trithemius of Wurzburg 162(17) III End Game 1484 179(13) A Wingless Fly 179(5) Why Was the Year 1484 so Formidable? 184(8) Censoring Phantasy 192(17) Abolition of the Phantasmic 192(3) Some Historic Paradoxes 195(2) The Controversy about Asinity 197(3) The Wiles of Giordano Bruno 200(2) A Single Reformation 202(2) The Change in Ways of Envisaging the World 204(5) Doctor Faust, from Antioch to Seville 209(16) The Permissiveness of the Renaissance 209(3) It Will Be Hotter in Hell! 212(2) An Exhaustive Moralism: The Legend of Faust 214(8) A Final Result? 222(3) Notes 225(30) Bibliography 255(4) Index of Names 259