I highly recommend anything by Joseph Campbell, especially 'the power of myth' with Bill Moyers. He really loved mythology and it shows in his interviews with Moyers, he talks about all kinds of cool stuff like 'the hero with a thousand faces' (basically all heroes throughout history are basically of the same mold and have many analogies). He talks about how heroes have to be put through a test, sometimes making sacrifices, its kind of like a test that makes them bona fide as they grow and mature (Gilgamesh, Hercules, even Luke Skywalker), and its a concept ingrained in human society because the formula repeats itself time and again in all cultures.
and today our heroes are cartoon characters and movie stars, rather than fire or policemen unless it's 911... or they save you.
My Dad's a cop...
Pfft, the cops is always keeping this brother down, giving me speeding tickets and repressing my right to drive as fast and recklessly as I want, fascists...
Sometimes corpses under your wheels will restrict your right to drive as fast as you wish too.
Now where's my Chariot!
I'm sorry, but the Power of Myth was filled with pop-psychobabble and pseudo-intellectual nonsense. You are better reading his other works.
Campbell is surely not the best Jungian around. If you want anything serious, better try Erich Neumann, or Marie Louise Von Franz on some issues. Hillman deals with easy books, although not uninteresting at times.
no so much people around here...
The Epic of Gilgamesh is... Epic! Very good insight into earl Naratives though!
You got that right!
