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thomasgoddard 's review for:
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
This book is fantastic if you have a really really weak and narrow understanding of mythology and human narrative convention.
If you're reading it for a class, there are more up to date and way less bias books to be getting on with.
The idea is great, that the stories we tell are directly built from interior schematics. But sometimes it's a stretch to neatly tar every tale with the same psychoanalytical paint roller.
I give this three stars because I really enjoyed the actual myth examples. They span a wide range of cultures and even if I'd heard most of them, being reminded of them was wonderful.
By the end though. It just seems a little... pointless reading it.
Next time I'll just pick up one of those anthologies of myths and folklore and sidestep all the psychobabble about my raging desire to metaphorically breastfeed.
If you're reading it for a class, there are more up to date and way less bias books to be getting on with.
The idea is great, that the stories we tell are directly built from interior schematics. But sometimes it's a stretch to neatly tar every tale with the same psychoanalytical paint roller.
I give this three stars because I really enjoyed the actual myth examples. They span a wide range of cultures and even if I'd heard most of them, being reminded of them was wonderful.
By the end though. It just seems a little... pointless reading it.
Next time I'll just pick up one of those anthologies of myths and folklore and sidestep all the psychobabble about my raging desire to metaphorically breastfeed.