I'd upmod you a hundred times if I could, even spending my karma to do so. You might be interested in the concept of Monomyth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon

I'd upmod you a hundred times if I could, even spending my karma to do so. You might be interested in the concept of Monomyth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth Further, the writings of Jung (and his intellectual descendants) on Archetypes might interest you. A further offshoot on this front is the Masculine Psychology movement of the latter half of the 20th century. If we view psychology as the study of a set of stories and the way that people relate to stories, it is much more useful than dismissing it because of its (often) poor or nonexistant scientific rigor.