Title: Perennial classic but outmoded
Review: This is a perennial classic and as such will continue to sell, but its contents have been repudiated time and again by Campbell's fellow academics. It is good to see that the Introduction to the 2004 Commemorative Edition has been eliminated; it was totally unnecessary and almost constituted a book in itself by the sycophantic Dr. Estes. Campbell's obsession with seeing the entire world and all of life through Freudian psychobabble is a discredited approach to mythology that insults most of the civilizations and religions he attacks or tries to undermine. Mythology does not occupy the modern mind or any facet of sociology today except in the ravings of lunatics and prison inmates, for most of whom a sense of identity has been severed from the rest of the human race.
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