DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
Myths of Creation and the Hero’s Psychology
A Summary of “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” by Joseph Campbell (1949)
“The truths contained in religious doctrines are after all so distorted and systematically disguised,” writes Sigmund Freud, “that the mass of humanity cannot recognize them as truth.”
In this article, we shall attempt to uncover some of these truths, for this is the task set forth in the second part of Joseph Campbell’s seminal The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
In the first part, we learned about the hero’s journey, but in this part, Campbell discusses the “cosmogonic cycle” — the process of the creation and destruction of the universe, and the human spirit.
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I: Emanations
1. From Psychology to Metaphysics
Myths hold psychological significance and modern psychoanalysts offer varying interpretations of them. Nevertheless, there are common principles describing how the…
