Dream and Myth

Kanae Matsumoto Giampietro
Dec 22, 2025
1 min read

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.

Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces (Prinston, 2004), p. 18

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