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These pieces have been posted in groups of four. Please navigate by first selecting a series from the left hand menu.

Introduction – 2 Kirk and Vader compare lightsaber sizes: Life lessons from sci-fi - Robert Cowan – 3
Caught in his web: The Redefining of a genre - Tony Schick – 7
A personal meditation on the archetype - J.D. Thayer – 12

Go ask your mama: The Mother Bear archetype  - Anne Pauw – 13
The changing role of the hero  - Patrick Constantino – 16
The Hyphenated-American  - Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen – 18
Archetypes of a political persuasion  - Chris Heinrich – 20

O Canada! The True North, Strong and Free! - Mallory Ferland – 24
Tracking the badass: The ‘cool’ archetype - Chris Dreyer – 26
The Beauty Process  - Mary Elder – 30
Embedded in archetype, entombed in matter  - Eric Cunningham – 32

One geek to rule them all: A confessional essay about the dangers of archetypes - Erin Comben – 40
Case study: Self-representation on Facebook  - Rod Aminian – 44
The Smart One  - Chris Heinrich – 46
Molded from Mary, cast from Christ: Archetypes in Catholicism  - Chris Sparks – 48
Back to the land: Environmental and agricultural archetypes and stereotypes  - Katie Love – 52

Gonzo is watching you: An exercise in the excesses of personality cult  - Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen – 56
Tricksters of cyberspace: The rise of a modern archetype -  Aaron Brown – 58
Star Maps: Intermediaries to the collective unconscious  - Chris Dreyer – 61
Archetypes of nine: Exploring the Enneagram  - Anthony Lazzaro – 63