- Introduction to the Third Edition
- Family Trees in the ‘Ring’
- Myth and Music[rtoc]
- Art and reality
- The images of music[/rtoc]
- Prelude to ‘Rhinegold'[rtoc]
- The beginning of the world as a symbol for our own beginning
- The state of nature and the fall from innocence
- Accepting the opposites or escaping them in fantasy
- The return to nature in rebirth symbolism[/rtoc]
- ‘Rhinegold’, Scene 1[rtoc]
- Alberich and the Rhinemaidens
- The Rhinemaidens and their gold
- Money seen as the root of all evil
- The fire under the water
- Accidentally on purpose?
- The renunciation of love
- A Promethean theft?[/rtoc]
- ‘Rhinegold’, Scene 2[rtoc]
- Wotan as an image of the self
- Wotan as a sky-god and a saviour god
- Wotan as inner consciousness
- Wotan as ego consciousness
- Wotan as father-image
- Fricka as part of Wotan’s inner femininity
- Other representatives of the eternal feminine
- The gods’ dilemma
- Loge the trickster and his tricky remedy[/rtoc]
- ‘Rhinegold’, Scene 3[rtoc]
- The paradox of the situation brought out in the music
- The underworld of Nibelheim
- The ring as a symbol for the self
- Tarnhelm as a symbol of unconscious fantasy
- The tricking of Alberich[/rtoc]
- ‘Rhinegold’, Scene 4[rtoc]
- Wotan acts the ruffian
- Alberich curses for the second time
- Alberich’s curse: sheer disaster or blessing in disguise?
- Erda prophesies to Wotan and Freia is ransomed
- The curse gets to work: Fafner murders Fasolt
- Valhalla the impregnable fortress at last[/rtoc]
- ‘The Valkyrie’, Act I[rtoc]
- Incest physical and mythological
- Incest a danger in the flesh and in fantasy
- Transgression or heroic accomplishment?
- Mythological incest as a ritual marriage
- Siegmund and Sieglinde in their hour of destiny
- Sieglinde and Hunding hear Siegmund begin his story
- Siegmund tells us of his unquiet and lonely life
- Siegmund’s story shows Hunding to be his enemy
- Why Wotan is entangled in his bargains
- The sword in the tree
- The sword itself
- The long winter ends with the coming of love[/rtoc]
- ‘The Valkyrie’, Act II[rtoc]
- Brynhilde as Valkyrie and more than Valkyrie
- Wotan and Fricka
- The sacrificial significance of Siegmund’s death
- Wotan confides in Brynhilde
- The end of Siegmund
- The consequences of Siegmund’s death[/rtoc]
- ‘The Valkyrie’, Act III[rtoc]
- The Valkyrie sisterhood and the rescue of Sieglinde
- Wotan’s estrangement from Brynhilde
- The partial reconciliation of Wotan and Brynhilde
- The parting of Wotan and Brynhilde[/rtoc]
- ‘Siegfried’, Act I[rtoc]
- Mime and Siegfried
- Mime and Wotan
- The forging of Nothung[/rtoc]
- ‘Siegfried’, Act II[rtoc]
- Alberich and Wotan
- Siegfried and the forest murmurs
- Siegfried and Fafner
- Alberich and Mime
- Siegfried’s foster-father
- The birds guide Siegfried towards Brynhilde[/rtoc]
- ‘Siegfried’, Act III[rtoc]
- Wotan and Erda meet for the last time
- Wotan and Siegfried
- Siegfried and Brynhilde
- To thine own self be true[/rtoc]
- ‘Götterdämmerung’, Act I[rtoc]
- Life’s two faces: the light and the dark
- The three aged Norns
- The journey to the Rhine
- The Gibichungs
- Siegfried and Gutrune
- Siegfried and the magic potion
- The plot against Brynhilde[/rtoc]
- ‘Götterdämmerung’, Act II[rtoc]
- The personal shadow and the shadow archetype
- The quarrel between Brynhilde and Siegfried
- The alliance of Brynhilde with Hagen
- The Terrible Mother as invisible partner in the plot
- The plot against Siegfried[/rtoc]
- ‘Götterdämmerung’, Act III, Part 1[rtoc]
- Siegfried accepts his destiny
- Siegfried’s narrative and self-discovery
- Siegfried’s death[/rtoc]
- ‘Götterdämmerung’, Act III, Part 2[rtoc]
- The dark night of the soul
- The eternal masculine and the eternal feminine
- Brynhilde’s hour
- The return to innocence in a maturer state
- The voluntary sacrifice of outworn values
- The baptism by fire and water
- The sacred marriage as the union of opposites
- Redemption as transformation in the psyche[/rtoc]
- Appendix of music examples
- Chart of selected leading motives
- Bibliography
- Numerical index of Motives in the ‘Ring’
Topics covered by this book
- Der Ring des Nibelungen (drama)
- Götterdämmerung (drama) • p217-274
- Siegfried (drama) • p175-216
- Die Walküre (drama) • p116-174
- Das Rheingold (drama) • p35-115
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