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Joseph Campbell
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American mythologist, writer and lecturer (1904–1987)
Joseph Campbell was an American scholar who studied myths and stories from cultures around the world, and he became famous for explaining how these ancient tales reveal universal patterns about human life and meaning. His ideas about the "hero's journey" — a common narrative structure found across different cultures — have influenced not only how people understand mythology but also how writers, filmmakers, and artists create modern stories.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 26 March 1904
- Died
- 30 October 1987
- Works
- 206
Top works
- Die grossen Mythen der Menschheit
- A skeleton key to Finnegans wake
- Koḥo shel mitos
- The Language of the Goddess
- De held met de duizend gezichten
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Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joseph+Campbell">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Quotes
- “Out of perfection nothing can be made.”
- “It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.”
- “It is ironic that our great western civilization, which has opened to the minds of all mankind the infinite wonders of a universe of untold billions of galaxies should be saddled with the tightest little cosmological image known to mankind? The Hindus with their grandiose Kalpas and their ideas of the divine power which is beyond all human category (male or female). Not so alien to the imagery of modern science that it could not have been put to acceptable use.”
- “In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.”
- “It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back. In fact, it may very well be that the very high incidence of neuroticism among ourselves follows the decline among us of such effective spiritual aid. We remain fixated to the unexorcised images of our infancy, and hence disinclined to the necessary passages of our adulthood.”
- “Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.”
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Official website
Welcome to the Joseph Campbell Foundation
The Joseph Campbell Foundation invites you to experience the power of myth. Building on the work on Joseph Campbell, we offer resources and community for those who hear that call to adventure.
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Joseph Campbell Collection - OAC
oac.cdlib.org →The Joseph Campbell collection consists of artifacts and audiovisual materials, including lecture recordings and film, that were created or collected throughout the course of his lifetime, as well as his personal library (catalogued separately). There are approximately 1,200 audio taped lectures and video tapes from during the decades he taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Eranos, Esalen, and elsewhere. The approximately 650 audio tape cassettes of Campbell’s public lectures reveal the scope of his interests in comparative mythology, religious studies, the hero’s journey, Indian mythology, the literature of James Joyce and Thomas Mann, and the psychologies of Sigmund Freud and C.J. Jung. Consists of two series: 1) Artifacts and 2) Audiovisual. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) was an American mythologist, writer, lecturer and Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College from 1934 to 1972. His work focused on comparative mythology and comparative literature. He was born in 1904 in White Plains, New York and studied at Columbia University, where he received a BA in 1925 and then an MA in Arthurian Studies in 1927. During the years he was on a traveling Fellowship in Europe to continue his studies at the University of Paris (1927-28) and at the University of Munich (1928-29), Campbell was exposed to the modern artists including Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, the literary works of James Joyce and Thomas Mann, and the psychological work of Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung. These individuals and their work greatly influenced Campbell’s work, which centered on mythology, literature, and psychology. Campbell was also a prolific public lecturer and traveled around the world to many universities and institutions. These include Eranos, Esalen Institute, the Theatre of the Open Eye in New York City, and many others. In 1988, a year after his death, the PBS series Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers was broadcast. The effect of this series upon the culture and the study of mythology and Jungian psychology has been extensive. For further biographical history see the authorized biography Joseph Campbell: Fire in the Mind by Stephen Larsen and Gail Larsen. Also visit the Joseph Campbell Foundation website.
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell's theories have been applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists. His philosophy has been summarized by his own often repeated phrase: "Follow your bliss." He gained recognition in Hollywood when George Lucas credited Campbell's work as influencing his Star Wars saga.
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