The lecture demonstrates how the narrative model of "the hero's journey" operates in myths, films, books, games, and everyday life. Participants will analyze the ideas of Campbell, McKee, and Harmon, see the connection between stories and internal conflicts, and understand how this narrative framework helps to view habits, projects, and personal changes. Plots that seem distant from everyday life often describe very familiar states. The hero receives a challenge, doubts, crosses the boundary of the familiar world, encounters obstacles, loses support, and gradually changes. This scheme can be recognized in myths, novels, films, and games, but it can also be noticed in ordinary matters: from the attempt to start a new project to the decision to finally break an unwanted habit. At the meeting, psychologist and philologist Varvara Ershova will analyze how the model of the heroic journey works and why it is so easily read in popular culture. The discussion will include ideas from Joseph Campbell, Robert McKee, and Dan Harmon-authors who have described the structure of stories, character movement, and the drama of change in different ways. Register on Timepad. To find out where to go in Saint Petersburg, you can check our website.