The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes: Poul Anderson’s “The Archetypal Holmes”
As far as Sherlockians go, I have a rather large Joseph Campbell library. I’ve even written about Holmes and the Monomyth (“The Hero’s Thousand-and-First Face”). Through Campbell, I discovered Carl Jung’s The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. However, all attempts to read it were abandoned rather quickly. I found it tough going. I do have a decent handle on archetypes from Role Playing Games, though. Anywhoo…The late Poul Anderson was one of the giants in the field of science fiction:…