Books like The hero with a thousand faces by Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell explores mythology as the world’s song, discussing its relevance for modern life, faith, and culture with interviewer Bill Moyers in this engaging dialogue.

Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of myth, drawing on diverse figures—buffalo‑gods, Quetzalcoatls, Buddhas, fairy queens—to illuminate how myths shape human culture and psyche.

A curated collection of Joseph Campbell’s interviews, speeches and quotations, revealing his thoughts on mythology, heroism, and the universal patterns underlying religion and culture.

A concise guide that blends primary mythic texts with analysis, introducing readers to diverse global myths from multiple critical viewpoints.

Carl Gustav Jung’s *Aion* explores how the Self—the totality of the psyche—is symbolized, especially through the fish, Gnostic, and alchemical signs that echo Christ, while reviewing core concepts like ego, shadow, anima and animus.

To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America. Roberts specifically examines the Afro-American trickster and the trickster tale tradition, the conjurer as folk hero, the biblical heroic tradition, and the badman as outlaw hero. -- Publisher description from http://www.upenn.edu (Oct. 11, 2011).

A collection of five key writings by Otto Rank, including his early mythological studies, essays on art, education, and will therapy, offering a concise introduction to his psychoanalytic insights.

_Essays on a Science of Mythology_ is a cooperative work between C. Kerényi, who has been called “the most psychological of mythologists,” and C. G. Jung, who has been called “the most mythological of psychologists.” Kerényi contributes an essay on the Divine Child and one on the _Kore_ (the Maiden), together with a substantial introduction and conclusion. Jung contributes a psychological commentary on each essay. Both men hoped, through their collaboration, to elevate the study of mythology to the status of a science. In “The Primordial Child in Primordial Times” Kerényi treats the child-God as an enduring and significant figure in Greek, Norse, Finnish, Etruscan, and Judeo-Christian mythology. He discusses the _Kore_ as Athena, Artemis, Hecate, and Demeter-Persephone, the mother-daughter of the Eleusinian mysteries. Jung speaks of the Divine Child and the Maiden as living psychological realities that provide continuing meaning in people’s lives. The investigations of C. Kerényi are continued in a later study, _Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter_ (Princeton).

Originally published in German in 1909, Otto Rank's The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche. Like his mentor Freud, Rank compared the myths of such figures as Oedipus, Moses, and Sargon with common dreams, seeing in both a symbolic fulfillment of repressed desire. Thirteen years later, Rank substantially revised this seminal work, incorporating new discoveries in psychoanalysis, mythology, and ethnology, doubling the size of the book. This expanded second edition has never before been available in English. For the second edition, Rank added anthropological considerations of primitive and civilized peoples to those of mythology; extensive discussions of birth dreams, flood legends, and rescue fantasies; and new mythological examples -- among them Dionysus, Kullervo (a precursor of Hamlet), Trakhan, and Tristan -- as well as fuller treatments of Sargon and Moses. Eloquently translated by Gregory C. Richter and E. James Lieberman, this volume also includes an introductory essay by Robert A. Segal and Rank's 1914 essay, "The Play in Hamlet."