Joseph Campbell, Hero's Journey

A compact collection of conversations and reflections by Joseph Campbell that traces the contours of myth and personal quest. Campbell speaks with figures who drew on his work—poet Robert Bly, anthropologist Angeles Arrien, filmmaker David Kennard, Doors drummer John Densmore, psychiatric pioneer Stanislov Grof, Nobel laureate Roger Guillemen, and others—covering the origins and functions of myth, the role of the artist, the need for ritual, and the ordeals of love and romance. With humor and poetry, Campbell recounts his own search and summarizes what he called “the one great story of mankind.”