Happy Birthday, Joseph Campbell

[David Morris]

OK, I'm ignorant of the source of Monomyth, and know Campbell only from
Video.  Haven't read FW either.  So my response to Monomyth was mostly from
reading Jung.  That's why I thought it a slur.

But I still contend that Jung is Campbell's father.  I don't see how he
went further.  Please illuminate.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Jung stole his mythology from Joyce.

On Wednesday, March 27, 2013, Ian Livingston wrote:

> Actually, monomyth comes from Finnegan's Wake. That's where Campbell
> claims to have lifted the idea. Jung pursues something different. He is
> looking at the connections between ancient mythology / gnostic traditions
> and psychological pathologies, especially among severe psychotics. He
> finds, of course, broader interpretations as he goes, and sees the same
> trends at work in literature, but he's a fair spell out another way from
> Campbell's monomyth thing. Campbell signed on to Jung's theories as a
> foundation for his own. Maybe springboard is a better metaphor. Both men's
> pursuits of connections seem quite elegant, bound as they are by the human
> cranium, which for all its capacity to wander vast abysses, always sees the
> depths shaped in the human iris. Jung is a pleasure to read as he waltzes
> through the lithic passages of the mind. Hardly a week goes by but I pull
> one of the Bollingen series off my shelf.
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:23 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> "mono-myth" is a slur, sir.
>>
>> I'm sure you know that,  or should.
>>
>> Myths have always meshed, long B4 Campbell or, more really Jung.
>>  Geniuses and Mystics make connections that most can't.
>>
>> Read Jung, straight.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 27, 2013, Ian Livingston wrote:
>>
>>> The Hero With A Thousand Faces is the standard on the monomyth thing.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> just picked up Robert Graves' The White Goddess and O' Goodness
>>>> what-a-book!
>>>> Haven't read any Campbell, though when I finally get around to tackling
>>>> Finnegan's Wake I hear his Skeleton Key is a MUST...
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone recommend a good book by him? (preferably lighter than The
>>>> White Goddess but Hey, I'm easy.)
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Ian Livingston <
>>>> igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
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