Comment by throw4847285
2 months ago
It's a shame that Joseph Campbell was wrong about everything, because he is an entertaining writer in the pseudo-profound register.
2 months ago
It's a shame that Joseph Campbell was wrong about everything, because he is an entertaining writer in the pseudo-profound register.
What was he most wrong about?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ww3d8h/how_a...
that's an abominable assessment of campbell. I'm not even going to bother responding to it, other than to point out this absolute nonsense:
> The monomyth is Campbellian imperialism. It's an appropriation of things he despises -- 'dreamlike mumbo jumbo', 'mystic[s]', and 'bizarre Eskimo fairy tale[s]' -- normalising them in an effort to make them tolerable
Jung, who is as associated with dreams as anyone, was one of campbell's greatest influences. Campbell deeply revered dreams, and you could probably find 1000 references of him talking about that's where myths come from.
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