Category Archives: fun with archetypes

Ask Dr. Freud: Oedipus and vampires

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

Dear Dr. Freud, I read recently that your theory of the Oedipus Complex can account for the popularity of vampire stories in contemporary literature and film. Can you explain the connection? Sincerely, Vampfan     Dear Vampfan, As you know, … Continue reading →

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vampire dreams

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

I can’t remember if I had frequent vampire dreams before vampires glamored the YA fiction market within an inch of its life. Sure, my Jungian upbringing taught me the vampire is a variant on the Demon Lover archetype that populates … Continue reading →

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clowns with balls

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

I saw The Antidote at the Festival of Clowns last weekend. Smartypants and Smartyboots (Diana Kolpak & Shantelle Simone Landry), cute but murderously competitive clown buddies, stage a circus wherein each act ends in disaster. The show got me thinking … Continue reading →

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fun with archetypes: The Tower Princess

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

She doesn’t get out much, the Tower Princess.  Could be she has three wee bairns, all nursing at once.  Or it’s a lack of funds holding her back–her husband is an experimental jeweler, or maybe an organ tuner.  There’s a … Continue reading →

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ask Dr. Freud: archetypes

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

Dear Dr. Freud, The theory of archetypes—the argument that a relatively small stock of characters and themes recur in endless but recognizable variations in our stories—has been hugely exciting and useful to scholars for a century now.  So who really … Continue reading →

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fun with archetypes: the Constant

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

Part of my feeling harried and hard done, by these last couple of weeks, is a result of too little contact with my Constant.  It’s her birthday today, but Mary is most of a world away from home (Samoa and … Continue reading →

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fun with archetypes: Calamity Jane

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

She was me, today, in Fides’s singing class!  There I was, channeling Calamity Jane from the early episodes of Deadwood.  Sloppy, sad, aggressive, foul-mouthed and utterly winsome. We’d been talking about the challenge of trying to teach a class with an … Continue reading →

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the werewolf I wanna be

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

I’m all for bandwagons when it comes to fiction.  If something is selling well, we should make more of it–that’s basic market wisdom.  And the laws of innovation dictate that each generation of product should improve on the last.  So while Stephenie … Continue reading →

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fun with archetypes: The High Priestess

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

Two years ago I started taking singing classes.  Let me say right off that I’m not a singer.  My voice is okay but not amazing. [Sidebar: As a kid I fantasized about walking up to the mic in a pub … Continue reading →

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fun with archetypes

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

According to Carl Jung, there are patterns that structure the way we think, act and imagine in the world.  We’re born with these patterns, and we share them with everyone on earth—but they’re unconscious.  We know them only instinctively, and … Continue reading →

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