Fury Road and the Trauma of Absence

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

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Video Chapters:
Fire and Blood - 00:00
Addicted to Water - 03:24
Who Killed the World? - 11:25
The Green Place - 22:27

Sources:
"Myth: A Very Short Introduction" by Robert A. Segal
“Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction” from "The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination" by Philip Ball
"Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939" by C.G. Jung
"A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity" by C.G. Jung
“The relations between the Ego and the Unconscious” by C.G. Jung
“Individuation and the Self” by Martin Schmidt: https://www.thesap.org.uk/articles-on...
“Jung’s Model of the Psyche” by Ann Hopwood:
https://www.thesap.org.uk/articles-on...
“Persona” by Sonoko Toyoda: https://iaap.org/jung-analytical-psyc....
“More than half of the world’s large lakes are drying up, study finds”:
https://www.reuters.com/business/envi...
“The Summer of 2023 Was the Hottest in 2,000 Years”: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...

Footage used from:
Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max: The Road Warrior
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max: Fury Road
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Planet Earth

Music from Epidemic Sound:
“A World Behind” by Hanna Lindgren
“Home at Last” by Piper Ezz
“Leave the Room” by Damon Greene
“Too Late to Wait” by Max Anson
“The Ninth Day” by DEX 1200 and Pawan Krishna
“Muted Rain” by Amaranth Cove
“Unfolded Stories” by DEX 1200
“Lost in Thought” by Amaranth Cove
“Disheartening” by Anna Dager
“Tensions” by DEX 1200
“Restful Hearts” by Elm Lake
“Atemporal” by Jakob Ahlbom, Anna Dager, and Hanna Ekström
“Petrichor” by At The End of Times, Nothing

Description credit: "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson