THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 My December review of the comedy-western LEGEND OF FRENCHIE KING  caused me to knock down some of my old mental dominoes and set them up in...

I introduced the term "stature" into my ongoing investigations of focal presences in SUBS AND COES PT. 1.   I doubt that I or anyo...

The principles of subordination and coordination also serve to further elucidate many of the complications regarding focal presences that ...

Upon re-reading my May essay TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE ENSEMBLES , I now believe that transitivity does not apply to the principle of ce...

The title refers back to the 2016 essay THIRD PRESENCE, PERIPHERAL . That title referred to presences in a narrative peripheral to the conce...

One of the great curiosities of comic-book mythography is that even though the heroes-- and occasionally, the demiheroes-- are the protagon...

I borrow the phrase "eccentric orbits" from astrodynamics. Wikipedia saith: The  orbital eccentricity  of an astronomical obj...

In essays on the subject of centricity, I've most often used the image of a geometrical circle, which, as I explained here,  owes someth...

In CENTRIC AND DIFFUSE WILL PT. 3 I compared my early use of terms like "dominant" and "subdominant" in the early histo...

I've been reading a few online resources on the subject of the myth-ritual school (sometimes called the Cambridge Ritualists). I've ...

This essay is not only a follow-up to parts one  and two  in the series, but also to the April essay RADICAL CONFLICTS . In addition, the en...

In Part 1  I chose to address two subjects-- that of the forms of narrative violence, and that of the four myth-radicals-- with reference to...