1. Myth and Dream Myths as Products of the MIND
The Monomyth (James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake)

2. Rite of Passage separation—initiation--return (See Hero Pg. 30)

3. Myths as Products of the Mind
Individual Mind
Sigmund Freud ( )
id / ego / superego
dream world of the individual
Collective Mind
Carl Jung ( )
dream world of society
collective unconscious
archetypes: recurring myths characters, situations and events
archetype as primal form or pattern from which all other versions are derived

4. The Psychological Quest
Sigmund Freud, c. 1921
( )
Carl Jung ( )

5. Hero Quest in the Individual Mind
dream world of the individual
importance of subconscious in determining human behavior and belief
psychoanalysis
a method of therapeutic analysis based on theory that abnormal mental states result from the repression of desires that the conscious mind rejects but which persist in the unconscious
id / ego / superego
Oedipus complex
Sigmund Freud, c. 1921
( )

6. Hero Quest in the Collective Mind
dream world of society
collective unconscious
archetypes: recurring myths characters, situations and events
archetype as primal form or pattern from which all other versions are derived
More on Jung:
Carl Jung ( )

7. Students of Jung Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) Victor Turner (1920-1983)
Ernst Cassirer ( )
Mircea Eliade ( )
Victor Turner ( )
Joseph Campbell ( )

8. Joseph Campbell 1904-1987 Hero's rite of passage journey of maturation
Growth into true selfhood (Jung's individuation)
More on Campbell:

9. Tragedy and Comedy in the Monomyth
“The universal tragedy of man”
“The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read , not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.” (pg. 28)
It is the business of mythology proper, and of the fairy tale, to reveal the specific dangers and techniques of the dark interior way from tragedy to comedy. (pg. 29)

10. The World Navel
The world navel is ubiquitous. And since it is the source of all existence, it yields the world’s plentitude of both good and evil.”
(Campbell, Pg. 44)
The omphalos
The effect of the successful adventure of the hero is the unlocking and release again of the flow of life into the body of the world.
(Campbell, pg. 40)
Delphi, the navel of the Greek world

11. The Star Wars Navel

12. The Hero’s Adventure Campbell, Star Wars and the Matrix
Now add Odysseus to this chart.