THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

Troll2 is a fable for children a crazy horror, much comic. The film did not have to be prohibited, nothing censorship, therefore nothing blo...

Readers will always seek a thru-line throughout whatever text is presented them, and their desire to create consistency and stability in eve...

"You can't escape rules once you begin any kind of storytelling.-- Tim O'Neil, "An Argument for Rules." Rather than i...

In part 2 of this series I took two of the examples provided in a Grant Morrison talk, X-MEN and LITTLE MERMAID, and used them as examples o...

Fiction is not just fiction, fiction is a set of rules by which the author and audience agree to cooperate.-- Tim O'Neil, "An Argum...

Back in DUELING QUOTATIONS I juxtaposed a Tom Spurgeon quote with a Grant Morrison quote. Spurgeon's essay called for a discussion of t...

In my last post I said: ...there remains a tendency for many critics to ignore the contributions of the unconscious/"primary concern...