THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

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

 As I write this, I've not yet finished reading the entire GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI manga online, but paused at Volume 2 (1996), three years...

Not that I've mentioned it before, but I've been working on a book explaining my take on the superhero idiom. What I'm printing ...

In addition to the other names given the "psycho killer" subgenre that I mentioned in Part 1,  "serial killer" is often ...

CBR's "Minorities Bitching All the Time" thread (not the real name, of course) gave me another reason to waste time with my ow...

Backing up a little: though I've stated that there out to be a "unity of action" between a work's overthought and undertho...

From a CBR thread this time: _____________________ Well, I'd automatically put aside comparisons between entertainment and addictive...

I've never claimed to be an expert in the culture of archaic Greece, so I can only make tentative assertions based on fragmentary eviden...

I haven't revisited Theodor Gaster's concept of "kenosis and plerosis" for some time, but it's occurred that some of m...

Suddenly, might is not an overwhelming force that exists outside the human subject, imposing fear as the lord does to the bondsman.  Might ...

I've often remarked that ideological critics are a superstitious, humorless lot, in that they're obsessed with performing "puri...

I've often referenced Alfred Adler's theory of compensation on this blog, particularly in the series COMPENSATION CONSIDERATIONS, be...

In the early years of this blog I didn't trouble much about "first posts of each year." But I did so at the beginning of 2014,...