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A mythological order is a system of images that gives consciousness a sense of meaning in existence, which, my dear friend, has no meaning — it simply is. But the mind goes asking for meanings; it can’t play unless it knows (or makes up) some system of rules.
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| Title |
Creative Mythology |
| Language |
English |
| Series |
The Masks of God |
| Creator |
Campbell, Joseph |
| Publisher |
The Viking Press, Inc. |
| Pub. Year |
1968 |
| Edition |
1st HC Ed |
| Printing |
First |
| Format |
Hardcover |
| Category |
Print |
| Length |
730 pp. |
| Catalog/ISBN |
670461113 |
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| Description |
This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man's unique position as the creator of his own mythology.
Review:
Primitive Mythology, Oriental Mythology, and Occidental Mythology, comprise not only a gigantic exposition of the world's mythology but also the application to that subject matter of the most varied disciplines, e.g., anthropology, sociology, psychology, archeology, linguistics, history, etc. The present volume, Creative Mythology, shares with its sister volumes the same eclectic approach; however, it deals with a different order of mythological phenomena. The previous volumes dealt with 'traditional' mythology; the present, with 'creative' mythology. Campbell makes the distinction between the two in this way: 'In the context of a traditional mythology, the symbols are presented in socially maintained rites, through which the individual is required to experience, or will pretend to have experienced, certain insights, sentiments,[...} — Leon Balter, Psychoanalytical Quarterly
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