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The Power Of Myth * Joseph Campbell / Bill Moyers (1988)

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I bought this book when I was ‘in between literature’. It is not really a book by Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), but rather the written result of a series of interviews by his former student Bill Moyers that were broadcasted on TV. My Dutch translation has a title translating as “myths and consciousness”, I think the original title fits the content a lot better. Campbell might have had ideas that I… Continue reading The Power Of Myth * Joseph Campbell / Bill Moyers (1988)

6 September 2009
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The Hero With A Thousand Faces * Joseph Campbell (1972 princeton university press * isbn 0691017840)

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The modern intellectual will without hesitation admit that the symbology of mythology has a psychological meaning. Especially since the work of psychoanalysists there can be little doubt that myths are of the same breed as dreams and that dreams are the driving force of the psyche.

I did not really plan on reading this book, but I ran into second hand and also I was a little curious… Continue reading The Hero With A Thousand Faces * Joseph Campbell (1972 princeton university press * isbn 0691017840)

4 July 2008
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