THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

I formulated the literary "word pair" of the ontocosm and the epicosm back in this May essay , and so far it's lasted. I have ...

 I proposed the theory of "gravity" and "levity" in 2012's GRAVITY'S CROSSBOW.  This was one of my many attempts...

 In the first installment of 2012's GRAVITY'S CROSSBOW, I sought to find some way to categorize the four literary mythoi of Northro...

 In this essay (and any follow-ups) I want to develop the line of thought in QUICK NUM NOTES .  As I said in NOTES, I'm not disavowing t...

I've just finished reading NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND for the first time. I probably have not read any Dostoyevsky in twenty years, desp...

 Yet the weakness of weak propositions is also their strength, for readers inevitably seek to justify their appreciation of favored artists ...

 In WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION, Schopenhauer distinguishes between "intuitive" and "abstract" representations: hum...

Though in past essays I've drawn some limited comparisons to the philosophical systems of Schopenhauer, Jung, and Whitehead, here I'...

As a prequel to a longer formulation, I’m recapitulating my “quantum literary theory” with some refinements. The foundation of the theory...

Though my rough reading of Whitehead’s PROCESS AND REALITY did not convert me to process philosophy, I profited once again through my exposu...

I continue making slow progress through PROCESS AND REALITY. As I said previously, the philosopher throws at his readers a huge quantity o...

Over the years, I've hammered out a relatively simple (for me) definition of my terms "lateral meaning" and "vertical mea...

...I agree with Jung's comment that "ideas" are developed out of what might as well be called "images" (Kant called...

In the last two sections of FOUR AGES OF DYNAMIS , I found myself questioning the conclusions I'd made in the 2012 essay-series GRAVITY...

The reason I wrote this sequel to the 2014 essay OBJECTS GIVEN LUSTER was not because that particular subject had been occupying my mind on...

Once more, I return to Cassirer's statement on the subject of efficacy, last cited here : …the world of mythical ideas… appears...