prolouge: myth and dream

I started reading the book "the hero with a thousand faces". What I got from the first part in the prolouge is that mythology can posibly be sub-conscious. Joseph Campbell started off talking about a dream an American youth had. Basically, the dream had to do with him accidently killing his dad, and his mom consoling him with kisses. Then Cambell countinued to talk about how a mother and child have a special psycollogically and also physical relationship. If you didn't know alot of myths deal with mothers having children with their son and fathers having children with their daughters. This could be a result of the special physical and pycollogical bond between child and parent. The portion of the book basically tells that humans have hidden desires or have dreams that make all humans think in generally similar ways. Their for the dreams/disires could be how all different cultures came up with similar ideas