“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
“Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.”
— Sam Keen
Source: The Passionate Life (1983), p. 140
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