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while that makers some sense, & I get the allusions that come up for you, it feels like you'd be working against the grain more than you need to? Note e.g. "The Crow" movie with the dark/ominous Brandon Lee death on set that several folks mentioned on your tread
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Crows were a favorite motif of my favorite daily cartoonist R.K.Laxman as well. In general, the connotations of crows for me are far more positive than for westerners. They are in indian culture more like cleverer pigeons than dark omens.
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As an aside, I’ve never bought into the idea of fundamental archetypes a la Jung/Archdruid/magick. It is to to archetype theory what the old theory of “6 basic emotions” is to Lisa Barrett’s constructivist theory of emotion. I operate by a constructivist theory of archetypes.
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As to Barret, I went over her key paper on this with a fine-tooth comb immediately, as there was obvious "archetypes as firmware yay or nay" import… overall I came away with the impression that she just pushed proto-emotion/instinctual circuitry a bit further down the stack NBD
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