“Every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness” Translated into over twenty languages, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has sold well over a million copies and continues to find new audiences among professors and students in fields ranging from the history of religion and anthropology to literature and film studies among creative artists including authors, filmmakers, game designers and song writers and among all of those interested in the basic human impulse to tell stories. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell formulated the dual schemas of the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through all of humanity’s mythic traditions, and of the Cosmogonic Cycle, the stories of world-creation and -dissolution that have marked cultures around the world and across the centuries. This seminal work has influenced millions of readers since it was originally published in 1949, bringing the insights of modern psychology together with Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology.
This title is part of the Bollingen Series series This title is part of the The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series
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