{"id":56,"date":"2015-06-01T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2015-06-02T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:23:30","slug":"what-do-joseph-campbells-the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces-and-george-lucas-star-wars-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/what-do-joseph-campbells-the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces-and-george-lucas-star-wars-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What do Joseph Campbells&#8217; The Hero with a Thousand Faces and George Lucas&#8217; Star Wars have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moongadget.com\/origins\/myth.html\">In 1949 Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) made a big splash in the field of mythology with his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces. This book built on the pioneering work of German anthropologist Adolph Bastian (1826-1905), who first proposed the idea that myths from all over the world seem to be built from the same &#8220;elementary ideas.&#8221; Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875-1961) named these elementary ideas &#8220;archetypes,&#8221; which he believed to be the building blocks not only of the unconscious mind, but of a collective unconscious. In other words, Jung believed that everyone in the world is born with the same basic subconscious model of what a &#8220;hero&#8221; is, or a &#8220;mentor&#8221; or a &#8220;quest,&#8221; and that&#8217;s why people who don&#8217;t even speak the same language can enjoy the same stories.\u00a0Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moongadget.com\/origins\/myth.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moongadget.com\/origins\/pix\/makeshift_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">In 1949 Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) made a big splash in the field of mythology with his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces. This book built on the pioneering work of German anthropologist Adolph Bastian (1826-1905), who first proposed the idea that myths from all over the world seem to be built from the same &#8220;elementary ideas.&#8221; Swiss psychiatrist Carl&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/what-do-joseph-campbells-the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces-and-george-lucas-star-wars-have-in-common\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,9,22],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-star-wars","tag-joseph-campbell","tag-star-wars","tag-the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}