Topics covered include:

Introduction: Ego and Its Shadow

I. BEATITUDE THROUGH SIN

1. The Origins: Biopsychology of Birth

2. Myths

3. Quest for Nonbeing

4. To Break the Covenant is to Confirm it

II. ASSERTION BY NEGATION

5. Paradise Lost

6. Ontological Loneliness

7. Assault on Cognition

8. Waiver of Sanity

III. REJECTION OF AUTHORITY

9. Petrified Ego

10. Rites of Passage

11. Solidarity and Beyond

12. Impossibility of Dialogue

13. The Stare of Medusa