The Problem With Archetypes

The same lments that made these incredible stories universal in other hands, and sometimes even in the same hands, if the same writers created stories that were stereo typical, predictable, formulaic, untruthful, that did the opposite of connecting to our collective unconscious. There is something disconnected from the fabric of humanity with what i am seeing right now. We all know what it's like to feel that. And the good news is that archetype can actually help you transcend that. But archetypes can also get in the way if you use them intellectually. The problem with archetypes is that archetypes are labels. They need to label them so that we can discuss them. That is their