Authors: Joseph Campbell
Tags: #Philosophy, #Mythology, #Psychology, #Mind, #Body, #Spirit
In his later years, Joe was fond of recalling on how Schopenhauer, in his essay
On the Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual
, wrote of the curious feeling one can have, of there being an author somewhere writing the novel of our lives, in such a way that through events that seem to us to be chance happenings there is actually a plot unfolding of which we have no knowledge.
Looking back over Joe's life, one cannot help but feel that it proves the truth Schopenhauer's observation.
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M. Capek,
The Philosophical Impact of Centemporary Physics
(Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand, 1961), p. 319; as cited in Fritjof Capra,
The Tao of Physics
(Boulder, CO: 1975), p. 211.
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Joseph Campbell,
Creative Mythology
, Vol. 4 of
The Masks of God
(New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1968), p. 508.
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This paragraph is paraphrased and quoted from C. G. Jung,
The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche
,
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung
, Bollingen Series XX, Vol. 8, pars. 789–792; originally published as “Die seelischen Probleme der menschlichen Altersufen,”
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
, March 14 and 16, 1930; Revised, largely rewritten, and republished as “Die Lebenswende,”
Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart
(Psychologische Abhandlunger, III; Zurich, 1931), which version was translated by W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes as “The Stages of Life,”
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
(London and New York, 1933); the present translation by R. F. C. Hull is based on this; cited in
The Portable Jung
, edited by Joseph Campbell (New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1970), pp. 19–20.
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Matthew 18:3.
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“Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians,” in
Memoirs of the American Folklore Society,
Vol. XXXI (1938,) p. 110.
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Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road,” in
Leaves of Grass
.
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Joseph Campbell,
Myths to Live By
(New York: Bantam Books, 1974; ebook edition, Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2011), "II - The Emergence of Mankind," pp. 23–24.
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Bṛhadāranyaka Upaniṣad 1.4.1–5.; quoted in Joseph Campbell,
Primitive Mythology,
Vol. 1 of
The Masks of God
(New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1959), p. 105.
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Primitive Mythology
, p. 104; abridging
Symposium
189D ff, from
The Dialogues of Plato
, translated by Benjamin Jowett (New York: Random House, 1937).
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C. G. Jung,
Axion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self
,
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung
, Vol. 9, Part II, par. 26; translated by R. F. C. Hull from the first part of
Axion: Untersuchungen zur Symbolgeschichte,
Psychologische Abhandlungen, VIII (Zurich: Rascher Verlag, 1951); cited in
The Portable Jung
, p. 151.
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Ibid., pars. 28–30, abr.; cited in
The Portable Jung
, pp. 152–153, abr.
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Erik Routley,
The Man for Others
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), p. 99; cited in
Creative Mythology
, p. 177.
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Gurraut de Borneilh,
Tam cum los oills el cor.…
, in John Rutherford,
The Troubadors
(London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1861), pp. 34–35; cited in
Creative Mythology
, pp. 177–178.
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Creative Mythology
, p. 567; Campbell here paraphrases James Joyce,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(London: Jonathen Cape, Ltd., 1916), p. 196.
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Joseph Campbell,
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, Bollingen XVII, 3rd edition, revised (Novato, California: New World Library, 2008), p. 196.
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Arthur Schopenhauer, “Die beiden Grundproblemen der Ethik,” II. “Über das Fundament der Moral” (1840),
Sämtliche Werke
, 12 Vols. (Stuttgart: Verlag der Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1895–1898) Vol. 7, p. 253; cited in Joseph Campbell,
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space
, 2nd edition, revised (Novato, California: New World Library 2002), p. 93.
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Ibid.
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Myths to Live By
, p. 155.
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Campbell comments: “See Melanie Klein,
The Psychoanalysis of Children
, The International Psycho-Analytical Library, No. 27 (1937).”
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Géza Róheim,
War, Crime, and the Covenant
(Journal of Clinical Psychopathology, Monograph Series, No. 1, Monticello, N.Y., 1945), pp. 137–138.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, pp. 173–174.
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Myths to Live By
, pp. 220–221.
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Ibid., p. 47.
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Wolfram von Eschenbach,
Parzival,
3.118.14–17 and 28; translated (in part) from Helen M. Mustard and Charles E. Passage (New York: Vintage Books, 1961), p. 127.
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Ibid., 3.119.29–30.
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Joseph Campbell,
Occidental Mythology
, Vol. 3 of
The Masks of God
(New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1964), pp. 508–509.
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Creative Mythology
, pp. 677–678.
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James Joyce, p. 247; cited in Joseph Campbell,
The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimensions of Fairy Tales, Legends, and Symbols
(New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1969), p. 209.
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Myths to Live By
, p. 68.
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Albert Pauphilet, editor,
La Queste del Saint Graal
(Paris: Champion, 1949), p.26; as cited in
Creative Mythology
, op. cit.
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C. G. Jung,
Psychology and Alchemy,
translated by R. F. C. Hull, in
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung,
Vol.. 12, p. 222; cited in
Myths to Live By
, p. 68.
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Joseph Campbell, “Mythological Themes in Creative Literature and Art,” in
The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959–1987
, edited by Antony Van Couvering (Novato, California: New World Library, 2008), p. 148.
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James Joyce,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
Penguin ed., p. 203; cited in
The Mythic Dimension
, p. 168.
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Ibid., p. 174.
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The Flight of the Wild Gander
, p. 226.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, p. 53.
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Ibid., p. 17.
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Ibid., p. 217.
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Ibid., p. 229.
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Myths to Live By
, p. 238.
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C. G. Jung,
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
(New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936), p. 129; cited in
Primitive Mythology
, p. 124.
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Ibid., p. 126; cited in
Primitive Mythology
, p. 124.
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Primitive Mythology
, p123.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, pp. 365–366.
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The Flight of the Wild Gander
, p. 110.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, p. 121.
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Ibid., p. 356.
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Ibid., p. 308.
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Myths to Live By
, p. 131, abridged.
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Bhagavad Gītā
, 2.27, 30, 23; abridged, reordered, and cited in
Myths to Live By
, p.202.
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Lao-tse,
Tao-te Ching
, 16 (translation by Dwight Goddard,
Laotzu’s Tao and Wu Wei
; New York, 1919, p. 18; as cited in
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, p. 189.
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Ovid,
Metamorphoses
, XV, 252–255; as cited in
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, p. 243.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, p. 367.
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Arnold J. Toynbee,
A Study of History
(Oxford University Press, 1934), Vol. VI, pp. 169–175, summarized.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, p. 16.
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Patanjali,
Yoga Sūtras
1.1–2, from Heinrich Zimmer,
Philosophies of India
, edited by Joseph Campbell, Bollingen Series XXVI (New York: Pantheon Books, 1951), p. 284.
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Joseph Cambell,
The Mythic Image
, Bollingen Series C (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 313.
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Ibid., p. 331.
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Ibid., p. 341.
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Ibid., p. 345.
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Ibid., p. 350.
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Ibid., p. 356.
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Ibid.
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Meister Eckhart
, edited by Franz Pfeiffer, translated by C. de B. Evans (London: John M. Watkins, 1924–1931), No. XCVI (“Riddance”), I, 239.
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Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad 9–11.
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The Flight of the Wild Gander
, p. 177.
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C. G. Jung, “The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man,”
Civilization in Transition
, in
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung
, Vol. 10, pp.. 144–145, ar. 304–305; cited in
The Mythic Image
, p. 7, abr.
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C. G. Jung,
Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1968), p. 46; cited in
The Mythic Image
, p. 186.
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Myths to Live By
, p. 219.
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Ibid., pp. 217–218.
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C. G. Jung,
Analytical Psychology
, pp. 11–14.
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Myths, Dreams, and Religion,
p. 169.
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Joseph Campbell,
Oriental Mythology
, Vol. 2 of
The Masks of God
(New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1962), pp. 503–504.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, p. 168; Campbell notes: “See Okakura Kakuzo,
The Book of Tea
(New York: 1906). See also Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki,
Essays in Zen Buddhism
(London: 1927), and Lafcadio Hearn,
Japan
(New York: 1904).”
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Immanuel Kant,
Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird aufreten können
, par. 36–38.
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space
, pp. 27–31, abr.
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Myths to Live By
, p. 23.
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The Mythic Dimension
, p. 157
.