A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

by Joseph Campbell

  [Back to Nt. 13] Gurraut de Borneilh, Tam cum los oills el cor.…, in John Rutherford, The Troubadors (London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1861), pp. 34–35; cited in Creative Mythology, pp. 177–178.

  [Back to Nt. 14] Creative Mythology, p. 567; Campbell here paraphrases James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (London: Jonathen Cape, Ltd., 1916), p. 196.

  [Back to Nt. 15] Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Bollingen XVII, 3rd edition, revised (Novato, California: New World Library, 2008), p. 196.

  [Back to Nt. 16] Arthur Schopenhauer, “Die beiden Grundproblemen der Ethik,” II. “Über das Fundament der Moral” (1840), Sämtliche Werke, 12 Vols. (Stuttgart: Verlag der Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1895–1898) Vol. 7, p. 253; cited in Joseph Campbell, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, 2nd edition, revised (Novato, California: New World Library 2002), p. 93.

  [Back to Nt. 17] Ibid.

  [Back to Nt. 18] Myths to Live By, p. 155.

  [Back to Nt. 19] Campbell comments: “See Melanie Klein, The Psychoanalysis of Children, The International Psycho-Analytical Library, No. 27 (1937).”

  [Back to Nt. 20] Géza Róheim, War, Crime, and the Covenant (Journal of Clinical Psychopathology, Monograph Series, No. 1, Monticello, N.Y., 1945), pp. 137–138.

  [Back to Nt. 21] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, pp. 173–174.

  [Back to Nt. 22] Myths to Live By, pp. 220–221.

  [Back to Nt. 23] Ibid., p. 47.

  [Back to Nt. 24] Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, 3.118.14–17 and 28; translated (in part) from Helen M. Mustard and Charles E. Passage (New York: Vintage Books, 1961), p. 127.

  [Back to Nt. 25] Ibid., 3.119.29–30.

  [Back to Nt. 26] Joseph Campbell, Occidental Mythology, Vol. 3 of The Masks of God (New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1964), pp. 508–509.

  [Back to Nt. 27] Creative Mythology, pp. 677–678.

  [Back to Nt. 28] James Joyce, p. 247; cited in Joseph Campbell, The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimensions of Fairy Tales, Legends, and Symbols (New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1969), p. 209.

  [Back to Nt. 29] Myths to Live By, p. 68.

  [Back to Nt. 30] Albert Pauphilet, editor, La Queste del Saint Graal (Paris: Champion, 1949), p.26; as cited in Creative Mythology, op. cit.

  [Back to Nt. 31] C. G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, translated by R. F. C. Hull, in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol.. 12, p. 222; cited in Myths to Live By, p. 68.

  [Back to Nt. 32] Joseph Campbell, “Mythological Themes in Creative Literature and Art,” in The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959–1987, edited by Antony Van Couvering (Novato, California: New World Library, 2008), p. 148.

  [Back to Nt. 33] James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Penguin ed., p. 203; cited in The Mythic Dimension, p. 168.

  [Back to Nt. 34] Ibid., p. 174.

  [Back to Nt. 35] The Flight of the Wild Gander, p. 226.

  [Back to Nt. 36] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 53.

  [Back to Nt. 37] Ibid., p. 17.

  [Back to Nt. 38] Ibid., p. 217.

  [Back to Nt. 39] Ibid., p. 229.

  [Back to Nt. 40] Myths to Live By, p. 238.

  [Back to Nt. 41] C. G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936), p. 129; cited in Primitive Mythology, p. 124.

  [Back to Nt. 42] Ibid., p. 126; cited in Primitive Mythology, p. 124.

  [Back to Nt. 43] Primitive Mythology, p123.

  [Back to Nt. 44] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, pp. 365–366.

  [Back to Nt. 45] The Flight of the Wild Gander, p. 110.

  [Back to Nt. 46] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 121.

  [Back to Nt. 47] Ibid., p. 356.

  [Back to Nt. 48] Ibid., p. 308.

  [Back to Nt. 49] Myths to Live By, p. 131, abridged.

  [Back to Nt. 50] Bhagavad Gītā, 2.27, 30, 23; abridged, reordered, and cited in Myths to Live By, p.202.

  [Back to Nt. 51] Lao-tse, Tao-te Ching, 16 (translation by Dwight Goddard, Laotzu’s Tao and Wu Wei; New York, 1919, p. 18; as cited in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 189.

  [Back to Nt. 52] Ovid, Metamorphoses, XV, 252–255; as cited in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 243.

  [Back to Nt. 53] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 367.

  [Back to Nt. 54] Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Oxford University Press, 1934), Vol. VI, pp. 169–175, summarized.

  [Back to Nt. 55] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 16.

  [Back to Nt. 56] Patanjali, Yoga Sūtras 1.1–2, from Heinrich Zimmer, Philosophies of India, edited by Joseph Campbell, Bollingen Series XXVI (New York: Pantheon Books, 1951), p. 284.

  [Back to Nt. 57] Joseph Cambell, The Mythic Image, Bollingen Series C (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 313.

  [Back to Nt. 58] Ibid., p. 331.

  [Back to Nt. 59] Ibid., p. 341.

  [Back to Nt. 60] Ibid., p. 345.

  [Back to Nt. 61] Ibid., p. 350.

  [Back to Nt. 62] Ibid., p. 356.

  [Back to Nt. 63] Ibid.

  [Back to Nt. 64] Meister Eckhart, edited by Franz Pfeiffer, translated by C. de B. Evans (London: John M. Watkins, 1924–1931), No. XCVI (“Riddance”), I, 239.

  [Back to Nt. 65] Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad 9–11.

  [Back to Nt. 66] The Flight of the Wild Gander, p. 177.

  [Back to Nt. 67] C. G. Jung, “The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man,” Civilization in Transition, in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 10, pp.. 144–145, ar. 304–305; cited in The Mythic Image, p. 7, abr.

  [Back to Nt. 68] C. G. Jung, Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice (New York: Pantheon Books, 1968), p. 46; cited in The Mythic Image, p. 186.

  [Back to Nt. 69] Myths to Live By, p. 219.

  [Back to Nt. 70] Ibid., pp. 217–218.

  [Back to Nt. 71] C. G. Jung, Analytical Psychology, pp. 11–14.

  [Back to Nt. 72] Myths, Dreams, and Religion, p. 169.

  [Back to Nt. 73] Joseph Campbell, Oriental Mythology, Vol. 2 of The Masks of God (New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1962), pp. 503–504.

  [Back to Nt. 74] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 168; Campbell notes: “See Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea (New York: 1906). See also Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism (London: 1927), and Lafcadio Hearn, Japan (New York: 1904).”

  [Back to Nt. 75] Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird aufreten können, par. 36–38.

  [Back to Nt. 76] The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, pp. 27–31, abr.

  [Back to Nt. 77] Myths to Live By, p. 23.

  [Back to Nt. 78] The Mythic Dimension, p. 157.

  [Back to Nt. 79] Loren Eisely, The Firmament of Time (New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1962), p. 140; cited in Creative Mythology, p. 624.

  [Back to Nt. 80] Myths to Live By, p. 77.

  [Back to Nt. 81] Ibid., p. 97.

  [Back to Nt. 82] Ibid.

  [Back to Nt. 83] Joseph Campbell, "Earthrise," Thou Art That, edited by Eugene Kennedy. (Novato, California: New World Library, 2011) p. 108.

  [Back to Nt. 84] Ibid.

  [Back to Nt. 85] Occidental Mythology, pp. 506–507; Campbell comments: “See Primitive Mythology (op. cit.), p. 231.”

  [Back to Nt. 86] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 156.

  [Back to Nt. 87] Myths to Live By, pp. 3–4.

  [Back to Nt. 88] Ibid., pp. 152–153.

  [Back to Nt. 89] Ibid., p. 153.

  [Back to Nt. 90] Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Boston, 1742); cited in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, pp. 127–128, abr.

  [Back to Nt. 91] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 128.

  [Back to Nt. 92] The Gospel According to Thomas, Coptic text, established and translated by A. Guillaumont, H.-Ch. Puech, G. Quispel, W. Till, and Yassah’abd al Masih (Leiden: E. J. Brill; New York: Harper, 1959), p. 43, Logion 77:26–27; cited in The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, p. 61.

>   [Back to Nt. 93] James Joyce, Ulysses (Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 9th printing, 1927; New York: Random House, 1934), p. 38.

  [Back to Nt. 94] Cited in The Portable Jung, p. 634.

  [Back to Nt. 95] Meister Eckhart, Vol. I, Sermons and Collations, No. II, p. 10; cited in Occidental Mythology, p. 510.

  [Back to Nt. 96] Ibid.

  [Back to Nt. 97] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 191.

  [Back to Nt. 98] Thou Art That, loc. cit.

  [Back to Nt. 99] Ibid., p. 391.

  [Back to Nt. 100] The Gospel According to Thomas, Logion 113:16–17, p. 57.

  [Back to Nt. 101] Occidental Mythology, p. 276.

  [Back to Nt. 102] Ibid., p. 281.

  [Back to Nt. 103] Joseph Epes Brown, The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press), p. 4, note 2; as cited in The Flight of the Wild Gander, p. 79.

  [Back to Nt. 104] The Flight of the Wild Gander, pp. 197–198.

  [Back to Nt. 105] Editor’s note in Heinrich Zimmer, Philosophies of India, edited by Joseph Campbell, Bollingen Series XXVI (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1951), p. 18.

  [Back to Nt. 106] Oriental Mythology, p. 280.

  [Back to Nt. 107] Heinrich Zimmer, Philosophies of India, p. 534.

  [Back to Nt. 108] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 160.

  [Back to Nt. 109] The Mythic Image, p. 419.

  [Back to Nt. 110] Goethe, Faust, Act II, scene 5, concluding Chorus Mysticus.

  [Back to Nt. 111] Thou Art That, loc. cit.

  [Back to Nt. 112] Myths to Live By, pp. 149–151.

  [Back to Nt. 113] The Mythic Image, pp. 321–322, abr.

  [Back to Nt. 114] Heinrich Zimmer, “The Indian World Mother,” translated by Ralph Manheim, in The Mystic Vision, Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Vol. 6, edited by Joseph Campbell, Bollingen XXX– 6 (New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1968; paperback reprint: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982), p. 77; originally published in Eranos-Jahrbücher VI (1938) by Rhein-Verlag, Zurich, Switzerland.

  [Back to Nt. 115] Ibid., pp. 95–96, abr.

  [Back to Nt. 116] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 170, note 132.

  [Back to Nt. 117] James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (New York: Viking Press, 1939), pp. 23–24.

  [Back to Nt. 118] The Mythic Image, p. 238.

  [Back to Nt. 119] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 113.

  [Back to Nt. 120] Ibid. p. 116.

  [Back to Nt. 121] See The Mythic Image, pp. 327–328.

  [Back to Nt. 122] Louis de la Vallée-Poussin, Le Bouddhisme (Paris: G. Beauchesne and Cie, 1909), p. 140; cited in The Mythic Image, p. 52.

  [Back to Nt. 123] Kaṭha Upaniṣad 3.12; cited in The Mythic Image, p. 52.

  [Back to Nt. 124] Vākya Sūdha 13; cited in The Mythic Image, p. 52.

  [Back to Nt. 125] The Mythic Image, p. 52.

  [Back to Nt. 126] Robinson Jeffers, from “Natural Music,” in Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems (New York: Horace Liveright, 1925), p. 232; cited in The Mythic Dimension, p. 175.

  [Back to Nt. 127] William Blake, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” in The Viking Portable Blake (New York: 1976), p. 258.

  [Back to Nt. 128] The Mythic Dimension, pp. 164–165.

  [Back to Nt. 129] James Joyce, Ulysses, p. 409.

  [Back to Nt. 130] The Flight of the Wild Gander, p. 196.

  [Back to Nt. 131] Ibid., pp. 186–187.

  [Back to Nt. 132] Robert Snyder, Buckminster Fuller (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980), p. 100.

  [Back to Nt. 133] Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism (First Series), Published for the Buddhist Society, London (London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town: Rider and Company, n.d.), p. 58.

  [Back to Nt. 134] Joseph Campbell, The Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Volume I: The Way of the Animal Powers, Part 2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), p. xv.

  [Back to Nt. 135] James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Jonathen Cape ed., p. 233; Penguin edition, p. 205.

  [Back to Nt. 136] Ibid.

  [Back to Nt. 137] Mythologies of the Great Hunt, p. xiii.

  [Back to Nt. 138] James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Penguin edition., p.214.

  [Back to Nt. 139] Ibid.; as cited in Primitive Mythology, pp. 469–470.

  [Back to Nt. 140] Ibid., p. 245.

  [Back to Nt. 141] Mythologies of the Great Hunt, p. xvii.

  [Back to Nt. 142] Friedrich Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie; oder Griechenthum und Pessimusmus (leipzig: E. W. Fritzch, 1886), passages from the ends of Sections 1 and 16, abr. and translated by Joseph Campbell; cited in Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Volume II: The Way of the Seeded Earth, Part 1: The Sacrifice (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), p. 46.

  [Back to Nt. 143] Myths to Live By, pp. 89–90.

  [Back to Nt. 144] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 4.

  [Back to Nt. 145] Thomas Merton, “Symbolism: Communication or Communion?” in New Directions 20 (New York: New Directions, 1968), pp. 1–2, abr.; as cited in Myths to Live By, p. 265.

  [Back to Nt. 146] Myths to Live By, p. 91.

  [Back to Nt. 147] Chāndogya Upaniṣad, 3.19.1–3.

  [Back to Nt. 148] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, pp. 276–277.

  [Back to Nt. 149] Primitive Mythology, p. 58.

  [Back to Nt. 150] Joseph Epes Brown, pp. 3–4 and 80; cited in The Flight of the Wild Gander, p. 78.

  [Back to Nt. 151] Primitive Mythology, p. 463.

  [Back to Nt. 152] The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 181.

  [Back to Nt. 153] Myths to Live By, p. 148.

  [Back to Nt. 154] Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World, translated by Cecily Hastings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964), p. 95; cited in Myths to Live By, p. 257.

  [Back to Nt. 155] The Flight of the Wild Gander, p. 197.

  [Back to Nt. 156] Myths to Live By, p. 257.

  [Back to Nt. 157] Ibid., p. 106.

  [Back to Nt. 158] The Gospel According to Thomas, Logion 3, p. 3; cited in Mythologies of the Great Hunt, p. xvii.

  [Back to Nt. 159] Ibid., Logion 113, pp. 55–57; as cited in Mythologies of the Great Hunt, p. xviii

  [Back to Nt. 160] From an anonymously edited and popularly circulated speech delivered by Chief Seattle (Seathl) in 1855; other versions have been published by Virginia Armstrong, I Have Spoken: American History Through the Voices of the Indians (Chicago: Sage Books, 1971); by Thomas Sanders and Walter Peck, Literature of the American Indian (New York: Macmillan, 1973); and in German, as Chief Seattle, Wir sind ein Teil der Erde (Olten und Freiburg i Brsg.: Walter-Verlag A. G. Olten, 1982); as cited in Mythologies of the Great Hunt, p. 251.

  [Back to Nt. 161] Myths to Live By, pp. 244–245.

  [Back to Nt. 162] Ibid., p. 274.

  [Back to Nt. 163] Ibid., pp. 253–254.

  [Back to Nt. 164] Ibid., pp. 246–247.

  [Back to Nt. 165] Leaves of Grass, ll. 1262-1280.

  [Back to Nt. 166] Bṛhadāranyaka Upaniṣad 1.4.6–10, abr.

  [Back to Nt. 167] The Gospel According to Thomas, 99:28-30 and 95:24–28; cited in Myths to Live By, pp. 258–260, abr.

  [Back to Nt. 168] Myths to Live By, p. 263.

  [Back to Nt. 169] Ibid., p. 266.

  [Back to Nt. 170] Ibid., p. 275.