THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 One of the earliest essays I wrote when I commenced this blog in 2007 was MYTHICITY, THREAT OR MENACE? , which partly concerned Eric Gould...

 A stereotype, or stereotypical device, is identical to what I called a "simple variable"  in this essay . For my purposes a simpl...

 Though the terminology introduced here may not stand the test of (my) time, I felt like better organizing my thoughts on "ontology and...

My title references an essay by snob-critic Edmund Wilson, who sneered at THE LORD OF THE RINGS with a snotty essay, "Oo, Those Awful O...

What a difference a year makes. It was in May 2019 that I first began referencing the four functions of Joseph Campbell's system as ...

Originally this essay was meant to build on my distinction between problems and conundrums. In my September 2023 post  WHAT VS. HOW , I gave...

I’m about a hundred pages into PROCESS AND REALITY now, and I surmise that Whitehead’s project isn’t all that relevant to mine. From what ...

As noted in Part 1 , Carl Jung's ruminations on child development in the womb would never have satisfied an empiricist.  His description...

At the conclusion of PRIDE OF PREJUDICE 2 I said: Sensationalism, with its ability to grab the audience by the lapels and make them want...

I’ve forgotten what recommendation led me to read CONCERNING THE GODS AND THE UNIVERSE, though I think it had to do with pointing out that i...

In an earlier post I tossed out the term "mythicity," which term was, to the best of my knowledge, originated by Eric Gould in his...