03-24-2012, 08:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-24-2012, 08:15 AM by Bring4th_Austin.)
I think you've made an excellent example about how the archetypes are ever-present in our unconscious mind, always expressing themselves through whatever chosen artistic medium. Here, we see imagery expressed with the same symbolic influence as express by the tarot. The archetypes are an unavoidable expression in anything drawn from the unconscious mind, especially imaginative art forms.
I think your point would be driven home much better if you could show how the lyrics express the archetype as well, and how it may relate to the particular culture/target audience of the video, and how it might be used as an unconscious form of seeking within that culture. At that point I'd probably agree with your assessment that this is one of your "best posts ever" :p.
I think the difference would be that the tarot, supposedly, were originally used to consciously contemplate the unconscious influence of the archetypes. They had the purpose of furthering ones seeking. What do you think that someone watching this video is truly consciously thinking, other than "party at the club?" I think the communication of the archetype is mostly to the unconscious, springing from the unconscious, rather than conscious mind to conscious mind.
I think your point would be driven home much better if you could show how the lyrics express the archetype as well, and how it may relate to the particular culture/target audience of the video, and how it might be used as an unconscious form of seeking within that culture. At that point I'd probably agree with your assessment that this is one of your "best posts ever" :p.
(03-24-2012, 02:37 AM)3DMonkey Wrote: You make an interesting point, too. How easy it must have been to see the tarot drawings as a fad and either used them to party at clubs or to hate on those that entertained themselves via such "devilry".
I think the difference would be that the tarot, supposedly, were originally used to consciously contemplate the unconscious influence of the archetypes. They had the purpose of furthering ones seeking. What do you think that someone watching this video is truly consciously thinking, other than "party at the club?" I think the communication of the archetype is mostly to the unconscious, springing from the unconscious, rather than conscious mind to conscious mind.
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