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Pathways to bliss : mythology and personal transformation

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: (The collected works of Joseph Campbell)Novato, CA New World Library for the Joseph Campbell Foundation c2004Description: xxvi, 194p.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1577314719
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Contents:
Part 1 - Man and myth. 1 The necessity of rites. 2 Myth through time. Part 2 - Living myth. 3 Society and symbol. 4 Myth and the self. 5 Personal myth. Part 3 - The hero's journey. 6 The self as hero. Part 4 - Dialogues. 7 Dialogues
Abstract: 'Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as :other people's religion." But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey oflife, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment--or, as he called it, bliss....In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth.'
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Ed. and with foreword by David Kudler.

Part 1 - Man and myth. 1 The necessity of rites. 2 Myth through time. Part 2 - Living myth. 3 Society and symbol. 4 Myth and the self. 5 Personal myth. Part 3 - The hero's journey. 6 The self as hero. Part 4 - Dialogues. 7 Dialogues

'Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as :other people's religion." But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey oflife, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment--or, as he called it, bliss....In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth.'

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