Creative Mythology

Creative Mythology is Volume IV of the comparative mythologist 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".

Creative Mythology: The Masks of God Volume IV

Cover of the first edition
Author	Joseph Campbell
Language	English
Subject	Mythology
Published	1968
Publication place	United States
Pages	730 (1968 Secker & Warburg edition)
ISBN	978-0140194401

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]