Storytelling is as old as humanity itself. From fireside tales to epic poetry, from Shakespearean drama to contemporary cinema, stories remain our most powerful means of making sense of the world. More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle, in his Poetics, attempted to understand why some stories captivate while others fail. He identified five essential […]
Buddhist Non-canonical Literature: Milindapanha
As long as you understand beauty to be beautiful, ugliness will exist,” said the Buddha. The Buddhist Scriptures When the Buddha spoke to his followers, he wanted to illustrate the duality of human existence. The aforementioned quote emphasizes that different emotions and various phenomena are the two faces of the same reality. Buddhism is a […]
Carl Jung Theory of Electra Complex
Electra complex, in psychoanalysis, is a daughter’s rivalry towards her mother and unconscious physical desire for her father. Sigmund Freud propounded the theory of Oedipus complex in The Interpretation of Dreams, in 1899. And Swiss psychologist Carl Jung proposed that female equivalent of Oedipus complex is Electra complex. When Carl Jung coined Electra complex in […]
Children Story Books by Sannel Larson
Children Love To Tell Stories If you are a parent, you might perhaps know your children always make stories. If you are not a parent yet, or you are just a single, you might have noticed that the children of your relatives or the children in your neighborhood always make stories. Children love stories and […]