I’ve been getting some really great questions in response to my recent video.
In addition to replying in the comments section of the video, I thought I should answer some of these questions on my blog.
“TemperateWhispers” asks:
Does this approach tie-in well with the mythic structure and its character types as seen in Campbell and also in Vogler?
Answer:
My system fits well with Campbell and Vogler.
The monomyth, or hero’s journey, is a story structure paradigm.
I’m teaching a character paradigm.
Campbell was a follower of Jung, and used Jung’s archetypes.
The system I teach, the Enneagram, uses Jung’s archetypes with some modifications.
Campbell tends to speak in terms of character functions in a story: hero, villain, ally, trickster, etc.
I’m teaching the nine personality types of the Enneagram system.
A hero could be any of the nine types.
So could a villain, trickster, etc.
So you can use the character types in the hero’s journey, which is what I do in my own writing.