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Samia Costandi

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The spiritual aspects of Joseph Campbell's hermeneutics in mythology : an examination leading to implications for religious education

eScholarship@McGill (McGill) 1994 Samia Costandi

Joseph Campbell's comparative studies in mythology revealed to him that culturally bred mythologies, despite their ethnic inflections, continually point to universal archetypes and a common human identity. Campbell's belief in the common human identity stems from his adherence to Carl Jung's mystical perspective on myth, where archetypes of the personal and collective unconscious help us...