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09.25.07Identity and the Hero with a 1,000 FacesConfession: I'm big on Jung, universal archetypes, lucid dreaming, dream interpretation. I've seen a Jungian for a bit not because I've got a dislocated psyche (OK, true, maybe I just need to keep digging), but because through analysis of dreams and the sub-conscious I get to understand my "story" better, the masks I wear, my place in this bigger scheme of things. I'm also big on Joseph Campbell. Universal narratives. The power of storytelling. So I run across Second Life, quite by accident, and the power to assume whatever identity we wish. To join whatever community we feel comfortable in, to build ...
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