The more important point is that people are moved and changed beyond archetypal fantasies.
Both formed long, passionate attachments to women who could not return their love, and although Baudelaire's bewitching, semiliterate courtesan, Jeanne Duval, was the antithesis of the plain, sensible Sara Hutchinson, each poet built elaborate, archetypal fantasies around the object of his desire.
These archetypal, gendered fantasy stories, the film suggests, contribute just as much to our suspicions about coupled life as our supposedly modern concerns about, say, work-life balance.
Sean Nelson, in his shrewd consideration of "Personal Record" for the music site the Talkhouse, made this point on the collaboration: "Had Stace sung 'When I Knew,' it might sound like nostalgia for the archetypal romantic fantasy of a certain kind of nerdy boy.
Because, way down deep in the sour, beleaguered hearts of most of us anti-royals, is the same sick will-to-deference and courtly obedience, an archetypal Jungian fantasy of liege-lordism, that fevers the most hyper-Beatlemaniacal lovers of pomp and vastly expensive circumstance screaming their lungs outside the Buck House balcony, imploring Wills to give Kate a second, more passionate kiss.
"There's a lot of emphasis on me being her son, but the work looks at archetypal relationships; also fantasy life and social conventionseverybody who looks at it brings their own understanding of their own relationships.
In recent years the archetypal on-screen male fantasy has evolved, or at least expanded.
Leon Botstein goes beyond Shostakovich (who will be represented by his music for the play "The Bedbug") to conduct such representative works as Popov's Symphonic Suite No. 1 and Mosolov's archetypal brave-new-world fantasy, "Iron Foundry," from the ballet "Steel" (1928).
They are affecting, subtly comical meditations on archaic fantasies of archetypal masculinity purveyed by the heavy-metal music industry.
In just a few dozen pages Ravachol dissects the structure of heroic fantasy narrative into its archetypal parts.
