![]() ![]() It evolved out of the intensely individualistic, human-centric cultural mythology that has us firmly in its grip, and that certainly defined the culture that Campbell was a part of during the first half of the twentieth century. He must then set out on a great adventure to find the missing treasure and bring it back to the world he left.Ĭampbell’s notion of the Hero’s Journey has been profoundly influential, and has many fine and fascinating qualities, but it’s also linear, all-conquering and world-saving. He, or someone he loves, or the world in which he lives, suffers from a symbolic deficiency (in a fairy tale, for example, it might be a missing ring of power, or a bucket of water from the well at the world’s end). ![]() In his 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, American mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested that the world’s most important mythological stories share a common framework: they all involve a hero, who happens to be a person of exceptional gifts, which may or may not be recognised by his society. ![]()
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