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This 5-page paper provides an overview (and opinion) about author and lecturer Joseph Campbell. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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little information about the writers specific opinion about Campbell, what follows is a model paper the writer can use to write his own version. The paper starts out with an
introduction and background about Joseph Campbell and his beliefs, with the second half of the paper focused on opinion as to whether Campbell was a intelligent philosopher or somewhat "out
there" when it came to mythology and other topics. Who Was Joseph Campbell? Campbell was an American author and editor whose claim to
fame was that of comparative mythology (Segal). Through his works and lectures, Campbell wove mythology and positive attributes (such as "follow your bliss"). His book, "Hero with a Thousand Faces"
introduces the idea of a collective consciousness. The book also deciphers common plots of all hero myths (Segal). Campbell was born in 1904,
and became preoccupied with mythology as a child because of exposure to Buffalo Bills Wild West exhibition and visits to the American Museum of Natural History, where he became fascinated
by Native American artifacts (Joseph Campbell). He was able to connect Native American beliefs with his own upbringing as a Roman Catholic (Segal). This was the development of his belief;
namely that similarities between myths count the most, that myth must be interpreted nonliterally and that religions, for the most part, misinterpret myth (Segal). As a young adult traveling through
Europe on a two-year fellowship, he found the works of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, which further boosted his beliefs about interpretation of myths (Segal).
As such, Campbells works on mythology borrow liberally from Freud and Jung, while focusing on his own beliefs in related and interrelated myths. In his "Hero With a
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