Psyche & Symbol: The Origin of Elementary Ideas

Joseph Campbell recounts German Anthropologist, Adolf Bastian, determining and defining the “Elementary ideas”

For more on Adolf Bastian and “Elementary Ideas,” see:

Mythos I: The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition (https://www.jcf.org/works/mythos-series/)

Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (https://www.jcf.org/works/primitive-mythology-10/)