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- Birth nameJoseph John Campbell
- Joseph Campbell was an American professor of literature who wrote extensively on the topics of comparative mythology and comparative religion. He is primarily famous for the book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (1949) which expressed his theory that there was a shared pattern in the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths, regardless of the geographic origin of the myth. Campbell's theory incorporates a mixture of Jungian archetypes, unconscious forces, and Arnold van Gennep's structuring of rites of passage rituals. While his conclusions have been challenged as overly simplistic, his suggested patterns have had an influence on fiction writers and musicians.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dimos I
- SpouseJean Erdman(May 5, 1938 - October 31, 1987)
- Extending mythology into the realm of Social Commentary.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 154-156. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Co-founded Theater of the Open Eye with Jean Erdman.
- [from Tom Brown's "Laconics"] I do not love you, Dr. Fell/ the reason why I cannot tell/ but this I know and know full well/ I do not love you Dr. Fell.
- If you're falling, dive.
- Follow your Bliss.
- Then Caesar said to Cleopatra: "Don't worry about him, he's British! He thinks the rules of his small tribe are the rules of the Universe!"
- The Mystic knows how to swim in the waters in which the Schizophrenic drowns.
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