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Author: Joseph Campbell
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Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world’s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.
As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.
As relevant today as when it was first published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists—including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers—and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.
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- Series: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: New World Library; Third edition (July 28, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1577315936
- ISBN-13: 978-1577315933
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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As someone who loves reading and studying myths, folktales, sagas, epics, etc. from around the world (and as someone who enjoyed reading Campbell's thoughts regarding the "Sacred" and "Profane"), I expected that I would have little but high praise for this book; in fact, I was quite excited to begin reading it. However, having finished reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces, I find myself slightly confused at why the book is so highly regarded. I don't want to spend a lot of time writing this--my goal is not to "pick on" the text (although I will admit that I am highly critical of it), merely to prevent disappointment in readers with expectations like my own--so I will list things.
--As other reviewers have noted, Campbell relies heavily on Freud, Jung, etc. Even though I am not terribly fond of psychoanalytic readings (I respect literary psychoanalysis as a valid interpretive model, but have mixed feelings on its use), I actually thought that Campbell's relating myths/tales to dreams and everyday symbology was one of the highlights of the text and was indeed quite clever (although not wholly original). Nonetheless, I felt that Campbell too often adduces the arbitrary dreams of unknown, everyday people as evidence for his claims: firstly, there are millions upon millions of people experiencing dreams each day, so to support any argument based on a handful of dreams (even if they are in many ways archetypal) seems imprudent at best; secondly, his interpretations of the dreams are very monochromatic, i.e. he explains them as clear-cut, black-and-white representations of his expostulations. His symbols, I think, are too one-to-one and "clean" to be convincing.
--Many of Campbell's claims are not justified.