THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

This isn't really a sequel proper to this June 2015 essay ; I just liked the title enough to use it with slight alterations-- though all...

I recently posted this simplified summation of my work/play concept on a forum-thread dealing with the question of whether or not superheroe...

I don't have anything further to say about the assorted pluses and minuses of Edward Skidelsky's Cassirer book, but I should note th...

In GROTHERY STORES I referenced a Gary Groth blogpost in which Groth tossed out George Santayana’s second-best-known quotation: ...

In this comments-section Charles Reece declined to respond to my criticisms of Adorno and the Frankfurt School, but mentioned that he had do...

Second verse, same as the first: "Cartoons were once exponents of fantasy as opposed to rationalism. They ensured that justice was done...

"Amusement and all the elements of the culture industry existed long before the latter came into existence. Now they are taken over fro...

"Whereas directed thinking is an altogether conscious phenomenon, the same cannot be said of fantasy-thinking. Much of it belongs to th...