The Power of Myth offers a profound exploration of the human experience, highlighting the significance of mythology in shaping our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
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Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell’s seminal work of comparative mythology traces the stages of the hero’s journey, or monomyth, as found in religious myths from around the world. Through the psychoanalysis of Freud and Jung, he relates this narrative to human psychology and spirituality.
Joseph Campbell -The Hero with the Thousand faces – Creation of the World
The second part of Joseph Campbell’s seminal work discusses the cosmogonic cycle of creation of destruction found in various myths. He also discusses the trope of the virgin birth, and how the cosmogony of mythology relates to the hero’s journey.