By The New York Times — 1983
For almost 50 years Joseph Campbell has been writing major studies of mythology.
Read on www.nytimes.com
CLEAR ALL
Campbell claimed his theory, which has gone on to influence everything from Star Wars to Disney’s Aladdin, arose from a universal structure inherent in the global myths of antiquity. The problem is, that’s a lie. Campbell’s theory is as mythological as the stories from which it borrows.