Star Wars - The Archetype of the Father

"I guess those stories are about finding lost pieces of ourselves and how to sort of find them back," he says. "In the example of Star Wars, that's how I interpret that movie." The story is actually that Luke is integrating the dark parts, at least that’s the symbolism from it,. So this is all within the framework of like the 12 steps, right, the monomyth, the Joseph Campbell hero story cycle?"

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