| Description |
416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Bollingen series ; 17.
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Mythos (Princeton, N.J.)
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Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks.
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| Contents |
The monomyth. pt. 1. The adventure of the hero. The departure. The call to adventure. Refusal of the call. Initiation. The road of trials. The meeting with the goddess. Women as the temptress. Atonement with the father. Apotheosis. Return. Refusal of the return. The magic flight. The crossing of the Return threshold. Freedom to live. The keys -- The cosmogonic cycle -- pt. 2. The cosmogonic cycle. Emanations. From psychology to metaphysics. Folk stories of creation. The Virgin Birth. Mother universe. Matrix of destiny. Womb of redemption. Folk stories of Virgin Motherhood. Transformations of the hero. The primordial hero and the human. Childhood and the human hero. The hero as warrior. The hero as lover. The hero as world redeemer. The hero as saint. Departure of the hero. Dissolutions. Epilogue: myth and society. The function of myth, cult, and meditation. |
| Summary |
This classic study traces the story of the hero's journey and transformation through virtually all the mythologies of the world, revealing the one archetypal hero in them all. |
| Subject |
Mythology.
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Psychoanalysis.
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| Local Subject |
HERO, THE, IN MYTH.
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| ISBN |
0691097437 |
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0691017840 (pbk.) |
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