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The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1949) is one of his best-known books: it discusses the monomyth cycle of the hero's journey, a pattern found in many cultures. His four-volume work The Masks of God covers the world of mythology.
As a child, Campbell became fascinated with Native American culture when his father took him to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He soon became versed in numerous aspects of Native American society, primarily in mythology. This led Campbell to a lifelong passion with myth and its similar, seemingly cohesive threads among all human cultures.
A graduate of Columbia University (B.A. 1925, M.A. 1927), he went on to study Medieval French and Sanskrit at the University of ParisThe University of Paris ( French: Universite de Paris was founded in 1150 and was known as the Sorbonne. Following the events of May 1968, the University of Paris was split in 1970 into a number of administratively separate universities, in an attempt to and the University of Munich. With Henry Morton Robinson he wrote A Skeleton Key to Finnegans WakeHistory Finnegans Wake is the last novel written by James Joyce. After Ulysses was published in 1922, installments of Work In Progress soon began to appear, the final title being a secret between the writer and his partner, Nora Barnacle. The finished boo, for which generations of puzzled readers of James JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce ( February 2, 1882 January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his short story collection Dubliners ( 1914 have been grateful.
Campbell studied the ideas of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl JungCarl Gustav Jung ( July 26, 1875 June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. At university, he was a student of Krafft-Ebing. For a time, Jung was Freud's heir-apparent in the psychoanalytic school., who had been a colleague of Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud ( May 6, 1856 September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. He became interested in hypnotis. Campbell's work in mythology sought to bridge the seemingly disparate stances of Jung and Freud and their pivotal debate over the collective unconsciousCollective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, and was originally coined by Carl Jung. He distinguished the collective unconscious from the personal unconscious, which is particular to each human being. The collective unconscious refers to tha, which became an embodiment of the conflicts between Western and Eastern worlds of belief. Another dissident member of Freud's circle who influenced Campbell was Wilhelm Steckel (1868 - 1939), who pioneered the application of Freud's conceptions of dreams and the unconscious to such fields as anthropology and literature.
Campbell was a professor at Sarah Lawrence College from 1934 until 1972.
Campbell collaborated with Bill Moyers on the PBS series The Power of Myth, which was first broadcast in 1988, the year after Campbell's death in Honolulu. They also jointly authored the book The Power of Myth [BooksEnthsiast.com] associated with the series.
George Lucas is said to have based the Star Wars series on ideas in The Hero With a Thousand Faces and other works of Campbell.Campbell is considered by some to be one of the most famous autodidacts, or 'self-educators.' See the autodidactism page for more information.
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