{"id":331,"date":"2020-05-25T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopperguy.com\/Jung\/?p=331"},"modified":"2020-07-26T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:21:20","slug":"who-was-joseph-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopperguy.com\/ThingsYouMustKnow\/who-was-joseph-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Joseph Campbell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"331\" class=\"elementor elementor-331\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6247c9c2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6247c9c2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-25e6f594\" data-id=\"25e6f594\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-539a2e9b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"539a2e9b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-333\" style=\"width: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/hopperguy.com\/Jung\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Hero_1000_Faces_thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Joseph Campbell was born in 1903, a year after Jung graduated and published his thesis. Campbell got a Master&#8217;s from Columbia University in literature in 1927. During his time there, he had the chance to study in Europe. When he came back, the depression had hit. With no job prospects, he rented a cheap house in Woodstock, New York and began reading for nine hours a day. In his reading, he noticed the recurrence of similar patterns in stories, in images, in religions, etc. This closely paralleled Jung&#8217;s ideas of <a href=\"https:\/\/hopperguy.com\/Jung\/what-are-archetypes\/\">archetypes<\/a>. The title of one book by Campbell is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces.html?id=I1uFuXlvFgMC\">The Hero with a Thousand Faces<\/a><\/em>, showing how there is an archetype of the hero&#8217;s story, be it Scheherazade, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Beowulf, The Three Musketeers, or Luke Skywalker. By relating archetypes to common stories, images, and religions, Campbell brought Jung&#8217;s ideas to a broader audience. <a href=\"https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/series\/joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-1988\/\">Bill Moyers&#8217;s interviews with Campbell on PBS<\/a> in the late 1980s became one of the most viewed series at that time. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-334\" style=\"width: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/hopperguy.com\/Jung\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Moyers-Campbell.jpg\" alt=\"\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Campbell also argued that many mythological stories were like guides, prescriptions for living. 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