Creative Mythology

Creative Mythology: The Masks of God Volume IV
Cover of the first edition
Author	Joseph Campbell
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Mythology
Published	1968
Pages	730 (1968 Secker & Warburg edition)
ISBN	978-0140194401

Creative Mythology is Volume IV of Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God. The book concerns "creative mythology", Campbell's term for the efforts by an individual to communicate his experience through signs, an attempt that can become "living myth".

Summary

Campbell writes that in "creative mythology", "the individual has had an experience of his own - of order, horror, beauty, or even mere exhilaration-which he seeks to communicate through signs; and if his realization has been of a certain depth and import, his communication will have the force and value of living myth-for those, that is to say, who receive and respond to it of themselves, with recognition, uncoerced.”^[1] Campbell gives as examples Thomas Mann and James Joyce.^[2]

References

↑ Campbell, Joseph (1991). Creative Mythology. Arkana. p. 4. ISBN 0-14-019440-1.
↑ Campbell, Creative Mythology p40

Joseph Campbell

Books

Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navaho War Ceremonial (1943). with Jeff King and Maud Oakes
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944). with Henry Morton Robinson
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

The Masks of God (1959–1968)	Volume 1, Primitive Mythology (1959) Volume 2, Oriental Mythology (1962) Volume 3, Occidental Mythology (1964) Volume 4, Creative Mythology (1968))

The Flight of the Wild Gander:Explorations in the Mythological Dimension (1968)
Myths to Live By (1972)
Erotic irony and mythic forms in the art of Thomas Mann (1973)
The Mythic Image (1974)
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion (1986)

Historical Atlas
of World Mythology
(1983–1989)

Volume I: The Way of the Animal Powers (1983) (reprint in two parts: Part 1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers (1988);
Part 2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt (1988))
Volume II: The Way of the Seeded Earth (Part 1: The Sacrifice (1988); Part 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The North Americas (1989);
Part 3: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas (1989))

Transformations of Myth Through Time (1990)
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (1991). editor Diane K. Osbon
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce (1993). editor Edmund L. Epstein
The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays (1959–1987) (1993). editor Anthony Van Couvering
Baksheesh & Brahman: Indian Journals (1954–1955) (1995). editors Robin/Stephen Larsen & Anthony Van Couvering
Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (2001). editor Eugene Kennedy
Sake & Satori: Asian Journals - Japan (2002). editor David Kudler
Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (2003). editor David Kudler
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (2004). editor David Kudler
The Mythic Imagination: Collected Short Fiction (2012), editors David Kudler and Robert Walter
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013), editor Safron Rossi
Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth (2015), editor Evans Lansing Smith

Books based
upon interviews

The Power of Myth (1988). with Bill Moyers and editor Betty Sue Flowers
An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms (1989). editors John Maher and Dennie Briggs, forward by Jean Erdman Campbell
This business of the gods: Interview with Fraser Boa (1989)
The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (1990). editor Phil Cousineau

Audio recordings

The Power of Myth (With Bill Moyers) (1987)
Transformation of Myth through Time Volume 1-3 (1989)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Cosmogonic Cycle (Read by Ralph Blum) (1990)
The Way of Art (1990—unlicensed)
The Lost Teachings of Joseph Campbell Volume 1-9 (With Michael Toms) (1993)
On the Wings of Art: Joseph Campbell; Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (1995)
The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell (With Michael Toms) (1997)

The Collected Lectures
of Joseph Campbell

Volume I.1: Mythology and the Individual (1997)
Volume I.2: The Inward Journey (1997)
Volume I.3: The Eastern Way (1997)
Volume I.4: Man and Myth (1997)
Volume I.5: The Myths and Masks of God (1997)
Volume I.6: The Western Quest (1997)
Volume II.1: A Brief History of World Mythology (2009–2011)
Volume II.2: Perspectives on Creative Mythology (2012–2013)
Volume II.3: Christian Symbols & Ideas (2014)

Myth and Metaphor in Society (With Jamake Highwater) (abridged)(2002)

Video/DVDs

Psyche & Symbol (13 part KQED/PBS video series: Executive Producer: Aaron Miller; Director: Diane Dowling) (1976)
Transformations of Myth Through Time (1989)
Mythos (1987/1998)
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988)
The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell (1987) (Phil Cousineau)
Myth and Metaphor in Society (With Jamake Highwater) (1993)
Sukhavati (2005)

Books edited

Gupta, Mahendranath. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942) (translation from Bengali by Swami Nikhilananda; Joseph Campbell and Margaret Woodrow Wilson, translation assistants -
see preface; foreword by Aldous Huxley)
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization. Heinrich Zimmer (1946)
The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil. Heinrich Zimmer (1948)
Philosophies of India. Heinrich Zimmer (1951)
The Portable Arabian Nights (1951)
The Art of Indian Asia. Heinrich Zimmer (1955)
Man and Time: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
Man and Transformation: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
The Mystic Vision: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
Spirit and Nature: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
Spiritual Disciplines: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors (1954–1969)
Myths, Dreams, Religion. Various authors (1970)
The Portable Jung. Carl Jung (1971)