THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 I could write overall evaluations of a lot of writers given that I've read all or most of their repertoires. But I can't do more th...

The main reason I devoted time to sussing out "the two escalations"  was because the earlier-conceived term bears on my also sussi...

For horror fans. the name "Torture Garden" calls to mind a 1967 film-anthology that adapted a bunch of unrelated Robert Bloch terr...

Somewhere in Leslie Fiedler's voluminous writings, he asserts-- and I obviously must paraphrase-- that even though Western literatur...

I'll probably wind up my essays on clansgression for the time being with this entry. There are a number of other subtle ramifications of...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsucce...

I first read WANTED as a graphic novel compilation after seeing and enjoying the 2008 film derivation.  I say "derivation" because...

Having put forth the idea of "coherent improbabilities" here , it occured to me that though I've given examples of particular ...

Though I'd been reading Kant off and on over the past twenty years, I'll readily admit I didn't invoke him often in the early ye...

On the essay to which I’ve linked under JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT, the blogger henceforth known here as Colin Liar (no implied relation to B...

In SUPERHUMAN ALL TOO SUPERHUMAN I used the William Moulton Marston WONDER WOMAN as my exemplar of the use of "dynamic violence," ...

"This book takes the point of view of Sade. the most unread major writer in western literature... Sade follows Hobbes rather than Locke...

The more atrocious the hurt [which the strong individual] inflicts upon the helpless, the greater shall be the voluptuous vibrations in him....