The hero in a thousand shapes

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The Hero in a Thousand Faces (OT: The Hero with a Thousand Faces ) is a book by Joseph Campbell published in 1949 .

Campbell examines the connections between the life experiences of mankind since their departure, the commonalities of all cultures in their orally transmitted stories and the fundamental needs derived from them, which people have always satisfied by telling and listening to stories. Shaped by Jung's idea of individuation , the self-realization of people for the common good after the courageous confrontation with their own voluntary limitations and their own unconscious, he compares heroes in myths, legends, fairy tales and religions around the world and distills a uniform basic structure from them .

Impact history

Numerous artists, musicians, poets, entrepreneurs and filmmakers, etc. a. Bob Dylan , Robert Bly , Jim Morrison , the rock band Grateful Dead , Stanley Kubrick , George Lucas , Richard Garriott , Ray Dalio and Steven Spielberg refer in their works to the theory of the hero's journey described in the book . The Swiss singer Anna Aaron named the book as inspiration for her album Pallas Dreams (2019).

Reviews

In 2011, the book was on Time Magazine's list of the 100 best and most influential books in English since the magazine was founded in 1923 .

“Campbell's great achievement consists primarily in the anthological summary and working through of an infinite material; From a seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of the myths of the whole world, he developed a great and comprehensive monograph and analysis of the hero myth in a comparative process. "

- Margarete Schüddekopf : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

expenditure

  • Joseph Campbell: The hero in a thousand shapes (Insel-Taschenbuch; Vol. 2556). New edition Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-34256-4 (EA Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1953).
  • Joseph Campbell: The hero with a thousand faces . 3rd ed. New World Library, Novato, Calif. 2008, ISBN 978-1-577-31593-3 (EA Pantheon Books, New York 1949).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.bzbasel.ch/basel/basel-stadt/die-hoheiesterin-mit-bittersuesser-zunge-die-basler-musikerin-anna-aaron-134062859
  2. ↑ Susanna Schrobsdorff: All-time 100 Nonfiction Books. In: Time . August 19, 2011, accessed December 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Margarete Schüddekopf: Review. (PDF) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 12, 1953, accessed December 26, 2016 .