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Why isn't this a fixed list? Shouldn't it be so that the list can't be added to?

Laurelyn wrote: "Why isn't this a fixed list? Shouldn't it be so that the list can't be added to?" I don't know why they have books that were written after Campbell died. And yet, it also seems incomplete. I see several works by Freud, but nothing by Jung, who he considered more important. I also don't see George Bernard Shaw, to whose works he refers often.

Michael wrote: "Laurelyn wrote: "Why isn't this a fixed list? Shouldn't it be so that the list can't be added to?" I don't know why they have books that were written after Campbell died. And yet, it also seems inc..."

Hi! I'm the publications director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation (as well as a Goodreads librarian) — thanks for bringing this to our attention.

JCF didn't create the list on GR, nor does there seem to be an mechanism for limiting or eliminating additions to it. If anyone knows a way to do so that doesn't involve deleting the entire list, please let me know! (ETA: Figured it out!)

I have reached out to the two four authors who seem to have nominated their books for this list and asked them to remove them voluntarily.

Suffice it to say, anything written after 1973 (when Campbell retired) doesn't belong here; the only modern fiction that belongs here is the Thomas Mann collection. (Depending on your definition of "modern," Typee is also supposed to be here.)

Again, thanks!

Michael wrote: "Laurelyn wrote: "Why isn't this a fixed list? Shouldn't it be so that the list can't be added to?" I don't know why they have books that were written after Campbell died. And yet, it also seems inc..."

Oh — and this list was in fact the one he distributed to his Intro to Mythology class in the last years that he was teaching at Sarah Lawrence.

ETA: Indeed, Jung's Integration of the Personality was missing. Added it!

Just to make things clear to all, here is the original list:

Reading List
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993.
Frazer, Sir James George. The Golden Bough. One-volume ed. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Also, abridged from the second and third editions, ed. Robert Frazer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Trans. Karen E. Fields. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien. How Natives Think. Trans. Lilian A. Clare. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. Trans. James Strachey. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
-. Three Contributions to a Theory of Sex. Trans. A. A. Brill. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1962.
-. Totem and Taboo. Trans. A. A. Brill. New York: Vintage Books, 1950.
-. Moses and Monotheism. Trans. Katherine A. Jones. New York:Vintage Books, 1967.
Jung, Carl Gustav. Integration of the Personality. Trans. Stanley M. Dell. New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.
The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life. Translated and explained by Richard Wilhelm, with a foreword and commentary by C. G. Jung. Revised and augmented edition. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1962.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or, The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane: according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English renderings. Compiled and edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda. The Dance of Ṥiva. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1924. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications, 1985.
The Bhagavad Gita. Trans. W. J. Johnson. Oxford and New York:Oxford University Press, 1994.
Okakuru, Kazuko. The Book of Tea. Tokyo & New York: Kodansha International, 1989.
Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen. New York: Pantheon, 1957.
Herrigel, Eugen. Zen in the Art of Archery. Trans. R. F. C. Hull. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
Lao-Tze, The Canon of Reason and Virtue (Tao Te Ching). Chinese and English. Trans. D. T. Suzuki and Paul Carus. La Salle, Ill: Open Court, 1974.
Sun-Tzu, The Art of War. Trans. Thomas Cleary. Boston: Shambhala, 1988.
Confucius, Analects. Trans. and annotated by Arthur Waley. Reprint of 1938 Allen & Unwin edition. London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988.
-. The Great Digest and Unwobbling Pivot. Trans. Ezra Pound. New York, 1951.
Chiera, Edward, They Wrote in Clay; The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today. Ed. George G. Cameron. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Birth of Tragedy. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Vintage Books, 1967.
Bible, New Testament, Book of Luke
Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound. Trans. James Scully and C. J. Herrington. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Euripides. Hyppolytus. Trans. Richard Lattimore, In Four Tragedies. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1955.
-. Alcestis. Trans. William Arrowsmith. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Sophocles. Oediups Tyrannus. Trans. and ed. by Luci Berkowitz & Theodore F. Brunner. A Norton Critical Edition. New York, Norton, 1970.
Plato. Phaedrus. Trans. R. Hackforth, in The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Ed. Edith Hamilton & Huntington Cairns. Bollingen Series LCXXI. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.
-. Symposium. Trans. Michael Joyce, in The Collected Dialogues of Plato.
The Koran. Trans. N. J. Dawood. 3rd rev. ed. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968.
The Portable Arabian Nights. Ed. Joseph Campbell. New York: Viking Books, 1951.
Beowulf. Trans. Lucien Dean Pearson. Ed. Rowland L. Collins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965.
Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson. Trans. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1916. Also, trans. Jean I. Young. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964.
Poetic Edda. Trans. Henry Adams Bellows. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1926. Also, trans. Lee N. Hollander. 2nd ed., rev. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962.
The Mabinogion. Trans. Jeffrey Gantz. New York: Dorset Press, 1985.
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Grimm's Fairy Tales. New York: Pantheon, 1944.
Adams, Henry. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. Also New York: New American Library, 1961.
Boas, Franz. Race, Language, and Culture. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1940.
Mann, Thomas. "Tonio Krøger," trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter, in Stories of Three Decades. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936.
Thompson, Stith. Tales of the North American Indians. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929.
Opler, Morris Edward. Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. New York: The American Folk-lore Society, 1938.
Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934, 1989.
Stimson, John. E. Legends of Maui and Tahaki. Honolulu: The Museum, 1934.
Melville, Herman. Typee. The Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, distrib. by the Viking Press, 1982.
Frobenius, Leo, and Douglas C. Fox. African Genesis. New York: B. Blom, 1966.
Radin, Paul. African Folktales and Sculpture. 2nd ed., rev., with additions. New York: Pantheon Books, 1964.
Deren, Maya. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. New Paltz, NY: McPherson, 1983.

So looking through this list and Campbell's, there are also items missing.

I have deleted the added titles and added the ones that I could find that had been left out.

If anyone finds something that's been left out or inadvertently added, please let us know.

Or you could just go to the Joseph Campbell Foundation where they have also posted the list.

Daniel wrote: "Or you could just go to the Joseph Campbell Foundation where they have also posted the list."

For which I was the managing editor at the time that I posted this list, so it was intended to be in their benefit. :-)