THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

  I'll probably never use the titular term "obsessive-transgressive" on a regular basis, for the phenomenon I'm addressing...

Regarding my new term in the title, it came about when I encountered TV Tropes using the abbreviation "Dom Com" as shorthand for ...

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

 I devoted some attention in REPETITION AND PROLONGATION PT. 2   to differences in the ways sadism-scenarios are used respectively in accomo...

  I mentioned last year, in my review of the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST episode “To Reign in Hell,” that on occasion I’d contemplated the possib...

                  In the three-part LOVE OVER WILL (FOR NOW) series, starting here, I listed five of the mythcomics I’d reviewed here becau...

Back in September of last year I experimented somewhat with "viewing the mode of the combative through the lens of sex rather than ...

At the end of Part 1 , I wrote: To re-state: even though I don't believe that biology is the sole determinant of gender differentiat...

In this essay I'll explore the application of my concept of megadynamicity to a selection of comics-narratives that I've more fully ...

My essay THE NARRATIVE RULE OF EXCESS was the primary argument in which I connected Nietzsche's specific idea of "high spirits...

In the second part of  LOVE OVER WILL (FOR NOW) , I started exploring the matter of narratives that emphasizes non-confrontational forms of ...

Nietzsche's "high spirits" line from TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS prompted this current line of thought. Once more, with (high) feeli...