![]() ![]() We respond instinctively to certain symbolic tales, and find literary themes that address elemental human concerns to be compelling. The power of storytelling and myth is real, whether or not Jung’s theory about archetypes is correct. The Hero’s Journey, what Joseph Campbell called the “monomyth,” borrowing from James Joyce, has always seemed right to me in its depiction of an underlying collective memory that storytellers tap into (Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers admirably decodes literary myth-making with its incisive analysis of both classic literature and more popular fiction). Those stories with mythic qualities have even more power, for they tap into our collective unconscious, those memories that seem hard-coded into us. ![]() We have been drawn to stories from the time our ancestors huddled around the fire and listened and learned and were entertained and enthralled by the tales of others.
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