Thoughts while eavesdropping in a coffee shop near a university

Rearchetypealize (re-archetype-alize) is not a word.

Rearchetypealization is definitely not a word.



ETA: Later, after several more uses and abuses of the word archetype in various odd forms, the other party to this conversation asks:

“What does ‘archetype’ mean?”
“Well, Campbell says …”
“I don’t want you to define it. I want to know what the word means to you. It’s clearly very dear to your heart.”
“Dyslexia is the father of creativity. To be able to source words that have open-ended meanings …”

The speaker went on for a while about how you shouldn’t want to pin things like this down, their power is that they shift. And then went on to explain what Jung has to say about the matter.

IOW, he never answered the question.

IOW, he isn’t any more sure than the listener. He just doesn’t realize it.



ETA: I wasn’t eavesdropping anymore, but … did he just say that wanting to say a word has to be committed to a concrete definition is George Bush fundamentalism? Did he really?

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