Fiction Guide: Analyzing All Stories: The Journey and the Return Home

In chapter 3 of the Hero with a Thousand Faces, there’s an interesting first paragraph. It speaks of how the Hero’s Journey at its core is about Separation-Initiation-Return. An interesting notion, and an important one.

But what is it about? What does it mean by Separation-Initiation-Return? Why would you classify such a complex theory as that which Jung…