Mythus von der Geburt des Helden vs The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Which Should You Read?

Mythus von der Geburt des Helden Otto Rank · 1914 100 pages · ≈ 1 h 51 m · Challenging

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,…

The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell · 1968 ★★★★☆ 4.0 448 pages · ≈ 8 h 18 m · Moderate

A thoroughly intense and all-embracing read. In the 2-page preface written in 1948, he states such ground-shakingly obvious facts about the human psyche, that you'll wonder why these ideas had never dawned on you…