Thoughts On 道可道 非常道 January 25, 2020 Cinema & Synchronicity — Thoughts On: Jungian Film Theory A consideration of the contingency and chance significance of meaning in artistic mediums. Art finds you as much as you find it. I have been interested of late in a wider conception of cinematic and artistic meaning under a Jungian lens. It is fascinating to think of meaning as related to primordial imagery, the unknown symbol and archetypal patterns in s...
What is the "Rule of Three" in Screenwriting? Today we're going to go over the twelve character archetypes and show you how they can inform the creation of your characters. We'll also give you examples of character archetypes in modern film and television. So let's dive into character! Where do Character Archetypes come from? You’ve written some great character descriptions and great character names, but how do you develop a great character? We place a lot of stock in things like Joseph Ca...
Time Bandits (1981) | Avco Embassy Pictures> Theft as metaphor/metaphor as theftWho is the God of the white man of the midwestern United States? And once we know who God is, we have to ask: does he have anything worth nicking? Former American Terry Gilliam has directed 12½ feature films, all of them fantastical reflections of our society and its foibles. Gilliam is the most cynical fantasist in cinema, and his surreal, misty films often put our own bad behavior on display. Gilliam crafts a sh...
Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...
On hats and their symbolism: From Dictionary of Symbols: Hat According to Jung, the hat, since it covers the head, generally takes on the significance of what goes on inside it: thought. He recalls the German saying ‘to put all ideas under one hat’, and mentions that in Meyrink’s novel The Golem, the protagonist thinks the thoughts and undergoes the experiences of another man whose hat he has put on by mistake (32). Jung also points out that, since the hat is the ‘crown’ and summit of an...
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How Jung’s collective unconscious inspired Alcoholics AnonymousSourceURL: https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/how-jungs-collective-unconscious-inspired-alcoholics-anonymous/ ≡ POLITICS MEDIA CULTURE ECONOMY RIGHTS ENVIRONMENT HEALTH GO AD FREE ...
