I dunno, the ring seemed pretty useful when he was hiding out with the Wood-Elves ...
It just seems Campbell has a hard time articulating what he's getting at sometimes. Especially since the Goddess step gets weirder when the hero herself is female--he goes kind of Freudian when that happens. I can see where he got the terms, but the need to instantly qualify them suggests he needs to find better ones.
Of course, I just realized that I really DO think of these steps in terms of video games now (the Meeting The Goddess is totally meeting the sage or the Great Fairy, and Atonement With The Father Figure = Final Boss), so once again it just goes to show that apparently he's right that people filter the monomyth through their own cultural ideals.
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Date: 2013-03-10 07:21 am (UTC)It just seems Campbell has a hard time articulating what he's getting at sometimes. Especially since the Goddess step gets weirder when the hero herself is female--he goes kind of Freudian when that happens. I can see where he got the terms, but the need to instantly qualify them suggests he needs to find better ones.
Of course, I just realized that I really DO think of these steps in terms of video games now (the Meeting The Goddess is totally meeting the sage or the Great Fairy, and Atonement With The Father Figure = Final Boss), so once again it just goes to show that apparently he's right that people filter the monomyth through their own cultural ideals.