The main problem with Joseph Campbell's Monomyth is that it comes packaged with Jungian pseudoscience of the "collective unconscious" and innate archetypes. Readers often assume that these ideas inseparable from the Hero's Journey.

Campbell was a Western chauvinist who dismissed stories from other cultures that did not adhere to the Monomyth. When we include those stories we can see that his claim of universality is patently false.

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