This section provides a short description of all the major
characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide
for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or
you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets
that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question
formats. The Author (Joseph Campbell) - This person was an
American teacher, lecturer, and writer whose work was almost
exclusively in the field of mythology. He studied and commented
on numerous aspects of myth - its function, history, and
cultural context, the similarities and differences between the
various myths of various societies, and the relationship between
myth and human psychology. Sigmund Freud - This person was a
groundbreaking psychoanalyst and psychologist, whose theories
revolutionized medical and popular thinking about the
functioning of the human psyche. In essence, he observed and
taught that the psyche... This section contains 621 words|
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