| Description |
xxiii, 416 pages, illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
Describes how the protagonists of folklore and religion enact simultaneously the various phases of their common story and relates their timeless symbols to those rediscovered in dream by contemporary depth psychology. |
| Contents |
Prologue : the monomyth -- The adventure of the hero -- Departure -- Initiation -- Return -- The keys -- The cosmogonic cycle -- Emanations -- The virgin birth -- Transformations of the hero -- Dissolutions -- Epilogue : myth and society. |
| Subject |
Mythology.
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Psychoanalysis.
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| ISBN |
1567311202 |
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9781567311204 |
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