Journey into self

1. Introduction. 2. The author and the book. 3. The beginning of the journey. 4. After the slough of despond. 5. From the house of the interpreter to the cross. 6. The valley of humiliation. 7. The valley of the shadow of death. 8. Christian finds a friend. 9. The adventures of Christian and Hopeful. 10. The journey nears its end. 11. The pilgrimage in modern terms. 12. The goal of the quest

'Dr. Harding, a student of Dr. C.G. Jung, sees in the great English classic, Pilgrim's Progress, a record of man's spiritual experience set down with amazing clarity, and has undertaken to interpret it in terms of modern analytical psychology. Most of the experiences Bunyan describes - dream figures, visions, and images- were his own, ascribed to Christian in the story. Dr. Harding stresses the universal nature of Christian's journey; it is the journey to find Self, to overcome Ego and the destructive aspects of the collective and personal unconscious, and reconcile all elements of the natural psyche. Interpreting each episode from Pilgrim's Progress analytically, Dr. Harding gives illustrations of similar experiences which have occurred in her own practice.'