The Hero With A Thousand Faces

THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

 

BOL LIN G E N SERIE S XVI I
PRINCETO N UNIVERSIT Y PRES S PRINCETO N AN D OXFOR D
Copyright © 2004 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

 

^{All rights reserved}TO MT FATHER AND MOTHER

First Edition, 1949
Second Edition, 1968
Copyright by Bollingen Foundation Inc., New York, N.Y.

The Introduction to the 2004 edition is copyright © 2003 Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. All rights reserved
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Figures xi List of Plates xvi Preface to the 1949 Edition xxi Introduction to the 2004 Commemorative Edition,

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. xxiii Acknowledgments lxvi

PROLOGUE: The Monomyth 1
1. Myth and Dream 3
2. Tragedy and Comedy 23
3. The Hero and the God 28
4. The World Navel 37

PART ONE
The Adventure of the Hero
CHAPTER I: Departure 45

1. The Call to Adventure 45
2. Refusal of the Call 54
3. Supernatural Aid 63
4. The Crossing of the First Threshold 71
5. The Belly of the Whale 83
CHAPTE R II: Initiation 89
1. The Road of Trials 89
2. The Meeting with the Goddess 100
3. Woman as the Temptress 111

CONTENTS CONTENTS

4. Atonement with the Father 116
5. Apotheosis 138
6. The Ultimate Boon 159
CHAPTE R III: Return 179
1. Refusal of the Return 179
2. The Magic Flight 182
3. Rescue from Without 192
4. The Crossing of the Return Threshold 201
5. Master of the Two Worlds 212
6'. Freedom to Live 221
CHAPTE R IV: The Keys 227
7. The Hero as Saint 327 8. Departure of the Hero 329 CHAPTER IV: Dissolutions 3371. End of the Microcosm 337 2. End of the Macrocosm 345