Q for women: how would Campbell's monomyth/hero's journey be different if it were the heroine's journey? Opinions or citations on this?
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"Once there was a beautiful woman who was so beautiful that men went crazy" from Helen of Troy to romance novels
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But Homer was a man! Is that what women would write in a matriarchy say?
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women's journey is abt proving desirability same as males. only desirablility is located elsewhere.
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that is definitely not the point of the male version.
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heck no. In Fight Club, a classic Hero's journey, it's not even remotely about being useful.
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. Campbell gives a few pretty telling examples of what would be different in this jungian paradigm.
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nice, thanks! Need to finish the original some day. Gave up early and defaulted to Wikipedia.
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Very interesting! Brown's List of Human Universals suggest some differences - less travel, less violence
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