The hero with a thousand faces
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 adventur...
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| Language: | English |
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Novato, California :
New World Library,
[2008]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987. Works. 1993.
Bollingen series ; 17. Collected works of Joseph Campbell. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The monomyth. Myth and dream ; Tragedy and comedy ; The hero and the god ; The world navel.
- Part I: The adventure of the hero. 1: Departure. The call to adventure ; Refusal of the call ; Supernatural aid ; The crossing of the first threshold ; The belly of the whale
- 2: Initiation. The road of trials ; The meeting with the Goddess ; Woman as the Temptress ; Atonement with the father ; Apotheosis ; The ultimate boon
- 3: Return. Refusal of the return ; The magic flight ; Rescue from without ; The crossing of the return threshold ; Master of the Two Worlds ; Freedom to live
- 4: The keys.
- Part II: The cosmogonic cycle. 1: Emanations. From psychology to metaphysics ; The universal round ; Out of the void--space ; Within space--life ; The 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 ; The hero as warrior ; The hero as lover ; The hero as emperor and as tyrant ; The hero as world redeemer ; The hero as saint ; Departure of the hero
- 4: Dissolutions. End of the Microcosm ; End of the Macrocosm
- Epilogue: Myth and society. The shapeshifter ; The function of myth, cult and meditation ; The hero today.
