Joseph Campbell cytaty
Joseph Campbell
Data urodzenia: 26. Marzec 1904
Data zgonu: 30. Październik 1987
Natępne imiona:Джозеф Кемпбелл
Joseph Campbell – amerykański mitoznawca, religioznawca, pisarz i myśliciel. Uznawany za jednego z najwybitniejszych mitografów XX w.
Swoimi fundamentalnymi dziełami zmienił tradycyjne sposoby pojmowania mitologii oraz zjawiska mitu we współczesnych naukach społecznych i wywarł istotny wpływ na twórczość artystów Zachodniego Świata drugiej połowy XX wieku.
Programy telewizyjne z jego udziałem, nadawane przez największe sieci telewizyjne świata, stały się wydarzeniem społecznym, naukowym i artystycznym lat 80.
Jego koncepcje umieszczane są w nurcie tzw. jungowskiej analizy mitologii i religii.
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Cytaty Joseph Campbell
„Każdy człowiek musi znaleźć taki aspekt mitu, który będzie związany z jego własnym życiem. Mity w zasadzie pełnią cztery funkcje. Pierwsza jest mistyczna: gdy uświadamiasz sobie, jakim cudem jest wszechświat i ty sam, i gdy odczuwasz lęk wobec tej tajemnicy. (...) Druga (...) jest wymiarem kosmologicznym (...); ukazuje ci kształt wszechświata, ale w taki sposób, że znów dostrzegasz w nim tajemnicę. (...) Trzecia (...) jest socjologiczna, polega na podtrzymywaniu i uzasadnianiu pewnego porządku społecznego.(...) czwarta (...) pedagogiczna: w jaki sposób żyć po ludzku w każdych okolicznościach. Mity mogą nas tego nauczyć.“
— Joseph Campbell
Źródło: Potęga mitu. Rozmowy Billa Moyersa z Josephem Campbellem, 1988, tłum. Ireneusz Kania
„The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.“
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
„Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.
Chapter 1
„This is our problem as modern 'enlightened' individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: (...) we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best, with only tentative, impromptu, an not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern 'enlightened' individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.
Chapter 2, page 87 (New World Library, 2008)
„The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience.“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience. Doubt comes in, and so forth. You must remember: all of the great traditions, and little traditions, in their own time were scientifically correct. That is to say, they were correct in terms of the scientific image of that age. So there must be a scientifically validated image. Now you know what has happened: our scientific field has separated itself from the religious field, or vice-versa. … This divorce this is a fatal thing, and a very unfortunate thing, and a totally unnecessary thing.
Lecture 1A, 13:45
„I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.“
— Joseph Campbell
Context: Moyers: Do you ever have the sense of... being helped by hidden hands?
Campbell: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time — namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
p. 120