But what can live on for many generations (besides the reruns) is the confidence that comes from recognizing our brokenness among our fellows embracing it and mending it with the virtues of love, courage, loyalty, certitude, and independence. This show, like everything in our finite universe, will one day end. I call it the “inner orphan.” (c)Įmbrace your inner orphan. I have a theory as to what the “something” is that sits in the seat of the unconscious and is recognizable below words. (c)įamily is that something in you that resonates with and recognizes that something in another. (c)Īnd man oh man do they love to make the monsters burn. Maybe even hungry for it, even though you know that winning can break your heart. If you’re ready, if you’ve trained and armed yourself with weapons and knowledge, then you are ready for that fight. It knows you, and sometimes it goes hunting for you.
There is an argument to be made, at least from a “larger world” perspective, that once you peer into the darkness and see what’s there then it also sees you. Overall, it's a fairly interesting read into how angst becomes angst and more delicious topics how the psychological tendencies of imaginary characters came to be the way they were portrayed.īeing born to fire isn’t a flaw. Some ideas branch out into trauma theory, the nature of fandom, parasocial relationships, family systems theory, triangulation, attachment theory. This piece of fiction seems to have been done with regard to human psychology somewhat more advanced than 101 (or a lot of cherry-picking happened or not). Fiction sometimes is wiser than reality in that it shows the most salient points of some stylized idea. Join him as he investigates the best and worst in human nature through his Psychology Today blog, “Beyond Heroes and Villains,” and through the Batman and Psychology page at /BatmanBelfry.An interesting take on a TV show. Follow Travis Langley as Instagram and Twitter. He has also given interviews for several documentaries, including AMC Visionaries: Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics, Superheroes Decoded, Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics, Legends of the Knight, and Hulu’s Batman & Bill. The New York Times, LA Times, Saturday Evening Post, CNN, MTV, and hundreds of other outlets have covered Langley’s work. Author and editor of fourteen books, he speaks regularly at events throughout the world, discussing the psychology of heroism and the power of story in people’s lives. He has been a child abuse investigator, courtroom expert, Wheel of Fortune game show champion, and popular keynote speaker. Travis Langley, PhD, is a distinguished professor of psychology at Henderson State University.
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