Happy Birthday, Joseph Campbell

[David Morris]

Jung is more than a springboard for anyone.

He allowed himself to go crazy.  For truth.

I know I sound besotted.  So be it.

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> 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> 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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