Eros and Magic in the Renaissance

Translator's Note
Foreword, by Mircea Eliade
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Phantasms at Work
1. History of Phantasy
(i) On the Inner Sense
Some Preliminary Considerations
The Phantasmic Pneuma
(ii) Flux and Reflux of Values in the Twelfth Century
Acculturation of the West
How a Woman . . .
(iii) The Vehicle of the Soul and Prenatal Experience
2. Empirical Psychology and the Deep Psychology of Eros
(i) The Empirical Psychology of Ficino and Its Sources
(ii) The Art of Memory
(iii) The Phantasmic Eros and the Appeasement of Desire
(iv) Phantasms at Work
(v) The Depth Psychology of Ficino
Descent of the Soul
Melancholy and Saturn
3. Dangerous Liasons
(i) Pico della Mirandola, Continuator of Ficino
Giordano Bruno, a Man of the Phantasmic Past
Scandal in London
Mnemonic Phantasms
Ambiguity of Eros
At the Heart of Bruno's Doctrine
Actaeon
Diana
The Parable of the Nine Blind Men
Circe
II. The Great Manipulator
4. Eros and Magic
(i) Identity of Substance, Identity of Process
(ii) Manipulation of Masses and of Individuals
(iii) Vinculum Vinculorum
(iv) Ejaculation and Retention of Semen
(v) Of Magic as General Psychosociology
5. Pneumatic Magic
(i) The Starting Point of Magic
(ii) "Subjective" Magic and "Transitive" Magic
(iii) The Conspiracy of Things
(iv) The Theory of Radiations
(v) Pneumatic Magic
6. Intersubjective Magic
(i) Intrasubjective Magic
(ii) Intersubjective Magic
Higher Presences
The Lures
Propitious Times
7. Demonomagic
(i) Some Concepts of Demonology
(ii) Demons and Eros
(iii) Witches and Demoniacs
(iv) Demonomagic from Ficino to Giordano Bruno
Classifications of Magic
Trithemius of Wurzburg
III. End Game
8. 1484
(i) A Wingless Fly
(ii) Why Was the Year 1484 so Formidable?
9. Censoring Phantasy
(i) Abolition of the Phantasmic
(ii) Some Historic Paradoxes
(iii) The Controversy about Asinity
(iv) The Wiles of Giordano Bruno
(v) A Single Reformation
(vi) The Change in Ways of Envisaging the World
10. Doctor Faust, from Antioch to Seville
(i) The Permissiveness of the Renaissance
(ii) It Will Be Hotter in Hell!
(iii) An Exhaustive Moralism: The Legend of Faust
(iv) A Final Result?
Note
Bibliography
Index of Names