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Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell was an American author and mythologist whose work on comparative mythology influenced countless writers and artists. His most notable work is The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he presents the idea of the "monomyth."

Born in New York in 1904, Joseph Campbell attended Columbia University, where he studied literature and mythology. He later earned a MA in medieval literature from the University of Paris and a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Munich.

Campbell's fascination with mythology began when he discovered the works of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Later he wrote many books on mythology, including The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a four-volume series, The Masks of God (1959–1968), Myths to Live By (1972), Transformations of Myth Through Time (1990), and others.

Also, a series of conversations between Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers, which was filmed for a television program PBS in 1988, became the book The Power of Myth. The dialogue explores the role of myth in human culture and how it can help people understand themselves and the world around them.

In addition to his academic work, Mr. Campbell was an accomplished speaker known for his engaging and inspiring lectures on mythology and spirituality.

The Star Wars creator George Lucas has acknowledged the impact of Joseph Campbell's work on his storytelling, particularly the idea of the hero's journey.

Joseph Campbell died at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was 83 years old.

After his death, Campbell's colleagues and friends established The Joseph Campbell Foundation (JCF) in 1990. The JCF preserves and promotes the author's work and offers a variety of educational programs and resources for scholars, students, and the general public.
vida del autor: 26 Marzo 1904 31 Octubre 1987

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Now began immediately a great battle for possession of the invaluable drink. One of the titans, Rahu, managed to steal a sip, but was beheaded before the liquor passed his throat; his body decayed but the head remained immortal. And this head now goes pursuing the moon forever through the skies, trying again to seize it. When it succeeds, the cup passes easily through its mouth and out again at its throat: that is why we have eclipses of the moon.
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All things are in process, rising and returning. Plants come to blossom, but only to return to the root. Returning to the root is like seeking tranquility. Seeking tranquility is like moving toward destiny. To move toward destiny is like eternity. To know eternity is enlightenment, and not to recognize eternity brings disorder and evil.

Knowing eternity makes one comprehensive; comprehension makes one broadminded; breadth of vision brings nobility; nobility is like heaven.

The heavenly is like Tao. Tao is the Eternal. The decay of the body is not to be feared
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Campbell was exposed not only to the great, groundbreaking novels of James Joyce and Thomas Mann and the radical art of Pablo Picasso, Antoine Bourdelle, and Paul Klee, all of whom integrated mythic motifs into their very modern work, but also to the revolutionary psychological teachings of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung. These last two brought young Joseph Campbell to the epiphany that, as he would later put it, “Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths.”[1]
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