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MONOMYTH
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            This article is about the general monomyth concept of a hero’s journey. For the graphical MMORPG Hero’s Journey, please see Hero’s journey (game).

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The monomyth (often referred to as the hero’s journey) is a cyclical journey found in myths suggested by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) [1] (http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias/hero/). As a noted scholar of James Joyce (in 1944 he authors the text, with Henry Morton Robinson, A Skeleton key to Finnegans Wake [2] (http://www.jfc.org/works.php?id=331), Campbell borrowed the term, monomyth from Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.

This pattern was adopted by Gorge Lucas in both original Star Wars trilogy and its prequels.

Holly wood screenwriter, Christopher Vogler, also used Campbell’s theories in the creation of first a memo for Disney and later the book, The Writer’s Journey: mythic structure For Writers. This infuenced Disney’s The Lion King in 1994 and the Wachowski brothers’ The Matrix in the 2000’s.

Campbell’s account of the monomyth explains its ubiquity through a mixture of Jungian archetypes, unconscious forces of mind from the Freudian conception, and Arnold van Gennep’s structuring of rites of passage rituals.

Since the late 1960’s, with the introduction of Post – structuralism, theories such as the monomyth (which are dependent upon approaches based in Structuralism) have lost ground in the academy. This pattern of the hero’s journey is still influential among artists and intellectuals worldwide, however, which may indicate the continued usefulness and ubiquitous of Campbell’s works ( and thus as evidence for the importance and validity of Freudian and especially  Jungian psychological models).

For the breakdown of the various stages of the monomyth, click here.