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Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth Stephen Rauch. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2003.
People live by the mythology of their time. Myths describe and illustrate deep structures of reality. They use dreams and imagery to express the eternal in terms of the temporal. Whenever we reach the point at which rationalizations can go no further, myths take over. This short but provocative book proves this, showing how popular culture is delving ever deeper into American culture and the modern psyche.
The Sandman is a series of graphic novels by Neil Gaiman, most of which were written in the 1990s and published in New York by DC Comics. The Sandman is the story of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, also called Dreams. He is one of the Endless, a set of seven beings who rule the universe: Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, twins Desire and Despair, and Delirium, who was once Delight.
They are the reason that we have gods, because they serve as the constituents of consciousness. In Caiman's...