Boulder's best comic store hosts a discussion of how 'comics express dimensions of the human spirit.'
When you support our community-rooted newsroom, you enable all of us to be better informed, connected, and empowered during this important election year. Give now and help us raise $12,000 by June 7.Comic books and the psychology of Carl Jung already share a common link: a constructive reliance on archetypes."One of the more influential aspects of Jungian psychology is understanding archetypes and the impact of mythology," says Steve Replogle.
Comics today are widely recognized as a serious tool for solid learning — a lesson America could have learned from PBS embracing Spider-Man for its groundbreakingshow back in the 1970s . Replogle admits some pride in being ahead of the curve in the educational promise in comics."But it doesn't much matter now that everyone has caught up," he jokes.
Fellow analyst Jeffrey Kiehl wrote his chapter for the book on the"Archetypal Dimensions of Comic Books," and discusses the shift in perspective between Marvel's seminalthat his analysis"considers how each of these series illustrates a religious function within the psyche and explores how changes in the social arena...have affected thematic elements."
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