THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 I ended  ACTIVITY AND RESONANCE, MEET POWER AND POTENCY  with the following sentence: ' A future essay will explore the possible linkag...

 The dichotomy known as "power and potency" has been hanging around this blog since 2014's POWER AND POTENCY , the first essa...

  Arguably a lot more uncanny narratives invoke passive potency than do marvelous ones...-- ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ANOMALIES PT 2. Aesop's f...

 I encountered the word "anomaly" used as a literary term in a book I referenced here : “Status quo” science fiction. . . opens wi...

 My December review of the comedy-western LEGEND OF FRENCHIE KING  caused me to knock down some of my old mental dominoes and set them up in...

This is just a quick follow-up to Part 4 , which discussed the knotty problem of imputing "power" to fictional characters who have...

While reading some online Golden Age comics courtesy of the site COMIC BOOK PLUS , I investigated the now-obscure company known as "Che...

While messing around in Merriam-Webster's online thesaurus in search of a title for this essay, I was surprised that a search for synon...

As one of my intermittent attempts to better illustrate the complexity of my theory of the two sublimities, I decided to explore some visual...

In Part 2 I've defined "potency" as a "dynamicity that is not a dynamicity," one that I applied principally to works...

I've studied various colloquial definitions of the words "power" and "potency," and, as mentioned before, some dicti...

[Hamlet] is a superman among men. And he is a superman because he has walked and held converse with death... Thus Hamlet is an element of e...