EN119 Lecture Notes - Collective Unconscious, Virtual Reality, Carl Jung
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Week 1 lecture 1 january 8th, 2013. What makes a story best loved and why? (iconic) Troy: there are no pacts between lions and men . Achilles" words as homer wrote them over 2000 years ago. Payoff: older generations of humans, stories are important for survival of finding food and necessary resources, and danger. Carl jung: archetypes as primordial images or psychic residue derived from the collective unconscious . Northrop frye: archetypes as elements/components of larger patterns or mythoi . How powerful stories are as simulators, they even affect realty. In sideways merlot wasn"t a good wine so in reality it isn"t a good wine. Story is a training ground, simulation, first forms of virtual reality, story worlds. Technological advancement has made stories more powerful: debates violence in video games. Films: not capturing the book, readers enjoying their stories more from video games than films and books. Overarching category will be genre. (help answer questions about narratives etc. )
