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Campbell
early age he devoted himself to investigate the importance of myths in the individual and collective behavior of man. Discovered, making a detailed historical study of various mythologies and religions in the world, there are issues common to them all. His insights were largely inspired by the famous psychiatrist CG Jung, who believed that there are archetypes in the collective unconscious. The archetypes are a kind of biological memory common to all human beings. Campbell studies highlighted the importance of the hero in all human cultures of all time. It also developed the hypothesis that the hero goes through cycles, which constitute the path of the hero, with a common cultural pattern: separation - removal, initiation - understanding return - return to society and transforming it.
Campbell, after he abandoned his doctoral thesis, due to disagreement with the hard line of the academic world, he began his teaching career in 1934 at Sarah Lawrence College, where he remained for thirty-eight years.
The general approach of his best known works, The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God, is to point out the significant overlap observed between the symbolism of dreams and elements characteristic of myths. The author makes an exposition of these elements, profusely illustrated with references to mythology of diverse cultural groups. The departure, initiation, and return the apotheosis are essential components of the adventure of the hero and identified time and again the legends, traditions and rituals of the peoples of the world: Polynesian and Greek myths, legends African , in the traditions of Native Americans, in fairy tales and even in certain symbols of the great religions today. Campbell
indicates the possibility that these symbolic systems represent natural creations of the human mind, hence the diffusion-and noted that the perturbed state of Western society in recent times may well be due to the progressive discrediting who have fallen in the mythologies and rationalization suffered by them, which the symbolic images take refuge in their home - the unconscious - and the isolated individual has to face the dilemmas that once successfully solved systems collective mythology.
