“When mythic material remains latent, unused and unexplored, it can lead to pathological behavior.”41 This small and fragile self needs to be a part of something more significant—and so it creates dramas, tragedies, and victimhoods to put itself on a larger stage. Just watch American television, where trivia and drivel are raised to an art form— as much by the news, political commentators, and religious programming as by the easily criticized talk shows.
