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The hero with a thousand faces, Joseph Campbell

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The hero with a thousand faces, Joseph Campbell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-382) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The hero with a thousand faces

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

224442464

Responsibility statement

Joseph Campbell

Series statement

Collected works of Joseph CampbellBollingen series, 17

Summary

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 Campbells' 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

Table Of Contents

Prologue: -- The monomyth : Myth and dream; Tragedy and comedy; Hero and the God ; World navelPt. I, The adventure of the hero : -- 1. Departure : -- Call to adventure -- Refusal of the call -- Supernatural aid -- Crossing of the first threshold -- Belly of the whale -- 2. Initiation : -- Road of trials -- Meeting with the Goddess -- Woman as the temptress -- Atonement with the father -- Apotheosis -- Ultimate boon -- 3. Return : -- Refusal of the return -- Magic flight -- Rescue from without -- Crossing of the return threshold -- Master of the two worlds -- Freedom to live -- 4. The keysPt. II, The cosmogonic cycle : -- 1. Emanations : -- From psychology to metaphysics -- Universal round -- Out of the void-space -- Within space-life -- Breaking of the one into the Manifold -- Folk stories of creation -- 2. The virgin birth : -- Mother universe -- Matrix of destiny -- Womb of redemption -- Folk stories of virgin motherhood -- 3. Transformations of the hero : -- The primordial hero and the human -- Childhood of the human hero -- Hero as warrior -- Hero as lover -- Hero as Emperor and as a tyrant -- Hero as world redeemer -- Hero as saint -- Departure of the hero -- 4. Dissolutions : -- End of the Microcosm -- End of the Macrocosm -- Epilogue: Myth and society : -- Shapelifter -- Function of myth, cult and meditation -- Hero today

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