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Re: Kong Review: Jaw-droppingly Brilliant



On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Mike Taylor wrote:
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:15:33 -0700 (MST)
From: "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>

The original story of KK was a subtle and poignant commentary on
the relationship between the wildness of nature and rules of human
civilization, and I don't see any evidence from

It is a classic representation of the Freudian dichotomous mind with a few Jungian elements thrown in.

Is it? Gosh. I thought it was about a big monkey.

Heh. Consider, Freud and Jung were news items in those days. You've got a small segment, the natives, representing the conscious mind, and a walled off segment, the unconscious, filled with monsters - er dinosaurs!