THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 Though I'll probably never gain a thorough knowledge of the Whitehead philosophy due to all my other irons in the Fire of My Philosophy...

In this 2022 post,  I briefly described a few ways in which I differed from the statements Susanne Langer made in the section I quoted here ...

 I thought that I had gone into some detail regarding Susanne Langer's views of the distinctions between "myths" and "tal...

...Calvino concluded that, although belief in the power of literature to promulgate a particular political doctrine was as deluded as the co...

 At the end of my previous half-a-review of John Lyden's FILM AS RELIGION, I wrote: Similarly, in a section devoted to anthropologist C...

My last post (for now) on the subject of the limited/limitless dichotomy concerns a certain irony about the many concepts of archaic myth. O...

                              Whatever the virtues of my essay-series HOW CONTEMPT BREEDS UNFAMILIARITY,    it did not succeed in supplyin...

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.-- Rousseau. I don't have any interest in visiting Rousseau's antiquated explana...

I've frequently cited this passage from Jung on the combinatory nature of archetypes: "[The archetype's] form, however ... ...

At the end of Part 2, I said: It seems evident that all of the "common words" Wheelwright lists are common because everyone kno...

I've posted a short review of Kim Stanley Robinson's MEMORY OF WHITENESS here , noting one of the more interesting philosophical obs...

Today I looked at Part 2, and added a sentence to describe how declarations are supposed to carry truth-value. The affected paragraph now re...

I preface the discussion referenced in the last post with another citation of my definition of the four potentialities: The KINETIC is ...

At the end of Part 1 of REFLECTIONS IN A MERCURIAL EYE, I said that Part 2 would deal with grounding my myth-critical approach within ...

Before I print the first of my series of "null-myths," I want to ramble on a bit about the contrasts between "mythicity"...

I said at the end of PLAYING WITH FUNCTIONS  that I'd seek to find examples of the four potentialities that might be more accessible tha...

In the WHAT WOMEN WILL essay-series-- which I referenced in Part 2 of this series-- I chose to focus upon two cultural and fictional archet...