Tag Archives: Joseph Campbell

It’s in the theaters. Star Wars is cleaning up and breaking all the records. Which for scientists like me shouldn’t mean a lot, I know. But inside, part of me is smiling. It’s the Christmas lights? you say. No. The children singing carols? Uh, uh. For me, the reason runs …

The Journey of Luke Skywalker: An Analysis of Modern Myth and Symbol is an interesting scene-by-scene close reading of the original Star Wars trilogy from a Jungian perspective.

Some time ago I discovered an excellent app for desktops and mobile devices that can help anyone apply the game metaphor in their lives in fun, productive and therapeutic ways. It’s called SuperBetter and in this post I’ll talk about how it could change your life. It really can.

One look at Iron Man in both the comics and the movies and it’s not hard to see why, on the surface, he’s such a popular character: He’s rich, famous, good-looking, surrounded by cutting-edge technology, creatively and intellectually brilliant and armed with the funniest mouth in the Marvel universe next to Spider-Man. In short, he’s everything that women want and everything that men want to be.

By working with these characters, their stories and their struggles, we cross a symbolic bridge into our own unconscious and subconscious and wrestle with the demons and villains that lie therein.