Campbell’s book is a classic study of mythology based on psychoanalysis, providing a key to the mysteries of the language of symbols—common to myths of the archetypal hero across the cultures of all the world. Moving from the psychological plane of analysis to the metaphysical one, Campbell presents the hero’s journey as a cosmogonic cycle. Having passed through the trials of initiation and crossed the threshold between being and nothingness, the hero as an embodiment of both the microcosm and the macrocosm dissolves into the Higher Self, thus completing his path.