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3.94 AVERAGE
So interesting and a brilliant examination on man's eternal struggle for identity - thought provoking and insightful !!
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This book is packed with stories and can be appreciated many times over. It is a book describing commonalities of mythology and as such contains countless myths within it.
For my first run through I was most interested in learning the steps of the hero's quest, the broad strokes commonalities between myths. This alone is fascinating and it's fun thinking of favorite movies or books and recognizing how they adhere to the formula Campbell describes.
For a future future reread, there is a near endless wealth of various myths from all over the world and from throughout human history correlating with each step of the journey. When I'm not jaded by that last horrible mythology book I read, I can come back to this and enjoy the specifics.
Very dense, and annoyingly heavily based on now mostly debunked psychology (book was written in 1950s and it leans heavily on psychoanalysis), this book offers a great deal of value and allows you to better appreciate the significance of any other media you experience.
For my first run through I was most interested in learning the steps of the hero's quest, the broad strokes commonalities between myths. This alone is fascinating and it's fun thinking of favorite movies or books and recognizing how they adhere to the formula Campbell describes.
For a future future reread, there is a near endless wealth of various myths from all over the world and from throughout human history correlating with each step of the journey. When I'm not jaded by that last horrible mythology book I read, I can come back to this and enjoy the specifics.
Very dense, and annoyingly heavily based on now mostly debunked psychology (book was written in 1950s and it leans heavily on psychoanalysis), this book offers a great deal of value and allows you to better appreciate the significance of any other media you experience.
This was an amazing book!
Joseph Campbell really did an amazing job in detailing the Hero’s Journey and making each part of the journey absolutely clear with examples.
I also find it fascinating how much Joseph Campbell’s work has influenced modern society (film - Star Wars - stories, games, and more).
Joseph Campbell really did an amazing job in detailing the Hero’s Journey and making each part of the journey absolutely clear with examples.
I also find it fascinating how much Joseph Campbell’s work has influenced modern society (film - Star Wars - stories, games, and more).
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"Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genious and can be employed as a deliberate device. It drives the psychic energies into depth and activates the lost continent of unconscious infantile and archetypal images. The result, of course, may be a desintegration of consciousness more or less complete (neurosis, psychosis: the plight of spellbound Daphne); but on the other hand, if the personality is able to absorb and integrate the new forces, there will be experienced an almost superhuman degree of self-consciousness and masterful control."
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mysterious
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Very informative and interesting. Campbell's drawing of sources from all different cultures and periods of time is an artful way of interpreting the human condition and story as the texture of reality. One of the most thought-shaping books I have read in years.