THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

  In the last years of his life, Carl Jung collaborated with analyst Anelia Jaffe to produce what I'll term a "transpersonal memoir...

 To cut to the chase, my answer to the question "why is heroic Reiko Mikami such a greedhead sadist" boils down to compensation fo...

 In this essay-series I've written a fair amount about Ghost Sweeper Reiko Mikami, but very little about her male co-star Tadao Yokoshim...

  in 1924, Freud elaborated on masochism, suggesting for the first time that it is quintessentially feminine to find pleasure in pain—indeed...

 In the history of humankind, the reasons for cultures to impute shame to their members are as varied as snowflakes-- failure to honor dead ...

 Now that I've specified in Part 1  my reasons for taking exception to Jung's characterization of what he termed "perception...

  I suppose I must have been at least partly converted by Alfred North Whitehead's PROCESS AND REALITY  when I read it in 2020 , since o...

It was only coincidence that I finished writing my analysis of the 2004 manga ZEBRAMAN a few days after two parallel, but apparently unrela...

 In the third part of my essay-series THE ONLY GOOD RAPE IS A FAKE-RAPE, I wrote the following: Commercial films-- which were, it should be...

In DOWNGRADING (OR DEGRADING) ON A CURVE , I discussed the dynamics of the BEWITCHED teleseries. I stated that even though the characters of...

My reading of a book on the early works of Colin Wilson, referenced here , moved me to check out one of Wilson's influences, the psychol...

  I mentioned here that I recently decided to import the concept of intentionality into my system. One reason for this change of mind was a...