Who are Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell?
Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell are two of the most prominent explorers of the psychoanalytical and mythological origins for human and social behavior. Carl Jung expanded the work of Sigmund Freud and the unconscious mind to emphasize the mythological forces working within the individual to shape his or her personality. Jung formed the concept of archetype and collective unconscious to explain the commonality of dream images and situations found in all people. Jung believed individual and social behavior and thought have their roots in a common palette of characters and situations the mind retains from early human consciousness development. To Jung, the archetypal hero represents the psyche’s quest for individuation, the process that makes each person unique. Jospeph Campbell built on Carl Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious to encompass all the world’s mythologies. Campbell studied the world’s religions, art, and stories and discovered common threads throughout all, including t
