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Exemplar

Leopold Bloom returning to Molly

cultural · read by 1 of 6 traditions

How each tradition reads them

  • Pollack 1980

    The novel's last 'yes' — the wanderer home, the wholeness tasted.

Where they sit on the lenses

Stage

  • Pre-initiation
  • Striving
  • Liminal
  • Integrating
  • Integrated

Affect

  • Gut · Anger
  • Heart · Shame
  • Head · Fear
  • Eros · Desire

Stance

  • Toward
  • Against
  • Away

Cluster coalescence

The archetypal tags above resolve into 1 cluster. Each cluster reads the exemplar in its own vocabulary; where more than one cluster surfaces, the exemplar themself is holding a structural tension.

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