American Scholar of Jung
Joseph Campbell (1904�1987) became a celebrity thanks to televised interviews with journalist Bill Moyers, which aired in 1988. In his best-known work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell argued that all hero stories are expressions of the same archetypal pattern, which he called the �Hero�s Journey,� or the �monomyth.� As well as introducing Jung�s ideas about archetypes and the collective unconscious to a wider audience, the book popularized comparative mythology itself�the study of the human impulse to create stories and images that, though clothed in the motifs of a particular time and place, draw on universal themes. Campbell�s wife, Jean Erdman, danced with Martha Graham�s company, and he was a Graham friend.
Joseph Campbell (1904�1987) became a celebrity thanks to televised interviews with journalist Bill Moyers, which aired in 1988. In his best-known work, <em>The Hero with a Thousand Faces</em>, Campbell argued that all hero stories are expressions of the same archetypal pattern, which he called the �Hero�s Journey,� or the �monomyth.� As well as introducing Jung�s ideas about archetypes and the collective unconscious to a wider audience, the book popularized comparative mythology itself�the study of the human impulse to create stories and images that, though clothed in the motifs of a particular time and place, draw on universal themes. Campbell�s wife, Jean Erdman, danced with Martha Graham�s company, and he was a Graham friend.