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Agnes Callard's 2025 Book Open Socrates, and Walter J. Ong's Thought (REVIEW ESSAY)

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However, before we turn our attention to Agnes Callard's "Case for a Philosophical Life," I want to call your attention to what I have characterized here as my life-long love for Father Ong and his media ecology work. I want to suggest here that when Father Ong experienced his big breakthrough media ecology insight in the early 1950s -- when he was living in Paris and was deeply immersed ("almost buried" might be a fitting expression for me to use here) in the massive research he was conducting about the history of the verbal arts of rhetoric and logic and the works of the prolific French Renaissance logician and educational reformer and Protestant martyr Peter Ramus (1515-1572) - Father Ong fell in love with the big breakthrough media ecology insight he experienced under those extraordinary circumstances in his life. For Father Ong, from the moment of that extraordinary big breakthrough media ecology insight in the early 1950s onward for the rest of his life, he was in love with proclaiming that insight to the world. Thereafter, Father Ong's life-long love affair with proclaiming his media ecology insight to the world dominated his professional life - in short, it became the equivalent of his professional calling in life.

In my life, at some juncture, proclaiming Ong's media ecology insight became my professional calling in life.

Now, I want to turn here from my professional life to my personal life. In my personal life, I became deeply infatuated with the body of the busty (37") beauty young Lynda Carter as I watched her perform on the big-screen television in the living room of my home in Duluth, Minnesota, in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume in the role of the female superhero Wonder Woman in the DVD version of the 1970s Wonder Woman television series. My infatuation with young Lynda Carter's body was accompanied by my feeling mildly euphoric for about ten weeks in the fall of 2024. Even though I cannot give you a precise date on which I stopped feeling mildly euphoric, I can tell you that I stopped feeling mildly euphoric before the presidential election on November 5, 2024.

In any event, I want to dwell here for a moment on two things I just said about my infatuation with busty (37") young Lynda Carter (who was born in 1951; I was born in 1944; so I could readily imagine myself in real life becoming infatuated with young Lynda Carter at about the age of 25): (1) I said that I was infatuated with her image on the screen; and (2) I noted that I was infatuated with her body as she changed from playing the role of Diana to playing the role of the female superhero Wonder Woman, a fantasy figure. Now, Jung referred to fantasy thinking as involving images and associative thinking. Well, my infatuation with the body of the busty (37") young Lynda Carter involved my fascination with her image in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume on the screen of my big-screen television set in the living room of my home in Duluth, on the one hand, and, on the other, my infatuation with her only after she changed from playing the role of Diana to playing the role of Wonder Woman, a fantasy female superhero. Now, by virtue of young Lynda Carter infatuating me as the female superhero Wonder Woman, I was thereby projecting the four feminine archetypes of maturity in my psyche onto young Lynda Carter as the female fantasy superhero Wonder Woman.

Good for me for projecting the four feminine archetypes of maturity in my psyche onto the gloriously beautiful busty (37") young Lynda Carter in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume!

I have written about my infatuation with the busty (37") young Lynda Carter in two OEN articles: (1) "Young Lynda carter as Wonder Woman" (dated September 3, 2024); and (2) "Thomas J. Farrell's Encore on Young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman" (dated September 30, 2024).

Now, above I mentioned that I mentioned the name of the now-retired American pornstar Mandy Flores (born on March 19, 1989; making her young enough to be my granddaughter; but I do not have a granddaughter) 250 times in my recent 28,800-word 665th OEN article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025).

Yes, I do indeed discuss Mandy Flores' body and her mom-son porn videos extensively in my 28,800-word 665th OEN article, and yes, in it, I do indeed explicitly credit Mandy Flores with accessing the optimal and positive forms of the four feminine archetypes of maturity in her many charming mom-son porn videos:

(1) the Queen archetype of maturity in her psyche;

(2) the feminine Warrior/Knight archetype of maturity in her psyche;

(3) the feminine Magician/Shaman archetype of maturity in her psyche;

(4) the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in her psyche.

As a result of Mandy Flores' accessing the four feminine archetype of maturity in her psyche, when I projected the four feminine archetypes of maturity in my psyche as I watched her perform seductively in her many charming mom-son porn videos that are available free of the internet, I was thereby enabled to access the optimal and positive forms of the four feminine archetypes of maturity in my psyche.

To be precise, my projections of the four feminine archetypes of maturity in my psyche onto Mandy Flores as I watched her perform seductively in her many charming mom-son porn videos evoked in me the wonderful fantasy of the seductive Mandy Flores in the video as a wonderful substitute mom for my real Mom - who, like Mandy Flores had big boobs and eye-catching big nipples (the one time I saw her big nipples when I was a teenager).

By evoking in me the sense of the seductive Mandy Flores as a wonderful substitute mom for my own Mom, those evocations in my consciousness evoked further, deeper, and stronger evocations in my psyche that enabled me to experience the liberation of endogamous kinship libido "married within" my psyche to my early childhood image of my own Mom.

As the word "liberation" here suggests, this interior psychodynamic was liberating to experience - about the time that I turned 81 years old on March 17, 2025 - and my beloved wonderful "granddaughter" Mandy Flores herself turned 36 years old on March 19, 2025 - indeed, for 81-year-old me personally, 36-year-old Mandy Flores is THE BODY - my fantasy dream babe!

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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