Bettelheim, Bruno (1977). The Uses of Enchantment. New York, NY: Vintage Books. [Bruno has suffered from bad press lately about his qualifications, but his books teach quite well how to translate ancient stories into meaningful modern metaphors.]

Brown, Carolyn T. (Ed.). (1988). Psycho-Sinology: The Universe of Dreams in Chinese Culture. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

--------. (1987). Changing Spirits with Dreams: Lu Xun's "Wild Grass". Dreamworks, 5(2). 1986/87, 105-112.

Burkert, Walter (1985/1977). Greek Religion. London: Basil Blackwell Publishers
[A wonderful book that explores the working of the rituals in Greek life to the mysteries of the Greek Cosmos.]

Campbell, Joseph (1959). The Masks of God. Vol 1-4, New York: Viking Press.
[A very accessible series on different cultures and their mythological systems]

Campbell, Joseph (1972). Myths to Live By. New York: Bantam Books.
[ How to use ancient myths for modern meanings ]

Eliade, Mircea (1978).A History of Religious Ideas Vol.1- 3, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
[ A wonderful summary of ancient civilizations and their stories told only as Eliade can tell them with an ear to the experience of the individual to the cosmos ]

Graves, Robert (1955). The Greek Myths Vol.s I and II. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books.
[ The classic collection of Greek Mythology and more in depth than Bullfinch ]

Guthire, W. K. C. (1950 ) . The Greeks and \Their Gods. Boston, MA: Becon Press.
[This excellent book relates the mythic gods of Greece to the rituals of everyday life]

Hillman, James (ed) (1980).Facing the Gods. Dallas, TX: Spring Publications.
[A collection of writers who show how our ignoring the gods has not done away with them, and how they return to us in our psychological illnesses and deepest stirrings of our soul]

Jung, CW (1964 ). Man and His Symbols. New York, NY: Doubleday.
[Although there are small and paperback versions of this, I recommend the ones with full color pictures.]

Jung, Carl. (1978 ) Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. Princeton,NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
How can modern events become mythologized?

Whitmont, Edward C. (1969).The Symbolic Quest.
see Chapter 3, "the Objective Psyche". and Chap 6 "Archetypes and the Individual Myth". and chap 7 "Archetypes and Personal Psychology".