The name “Finn” goes back to an old Irish hero, “Fionn mac Cumhaill " [Finn MacCool], who was the guardian of Dublin Bay for many, many years.  And he was a great giant and he...

Joseph Campbell said numerous times that he wasn't a Jungian — by which he meant that he was never a direct student of C.G. Jung's (though the two did correspond), nor a patient, nor an...

Having brushed all the sand from his back, Lilian began abstractedly to scratch doodles with her fingernail on his shoulder. “You don’t know,” she said, “how repulsive it is to have all those ninnies calling...

Joseph Campbell was fascinated by Lithuanian mythologist and anthropologist Marija Gimbutas's work. As he worked on his great (and, sadly, unfinished) masterpiece, the Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Campbell immersed himself in her writing about...

In this extract from A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living, one of this quotable man's most quoted works, Campbell explores one of the central themes of myth: love and marriage. The...