ABSTRACT
This piece has a meditative tone. The writer uses events in a remote area of central Australia to weave a story that connects mythic patterns with personal and professional incidents. He refers to Aboriginal Australian dreaming, traumatic memory and geographical sites in an effort to represent and dramatize the experience of living inside a detonating cultural complex. The author’s interest is in identifying psycho-cultural structures which undergird a cultural complex. He suggests that ancient, habitual, mythically reinforced psychic structures may be repeating themselves autonomously from a basic pattern, rather like a DNA system. Such patterns may be encoded into legends or hieratic dramas associated with specific sites and can be detected by analysing mythologized stories embedded in cultural sites, by analyzing how a culture developed (and perverted) the use of primal tools and by noting what cultural groups do with human bodies, death, justice, and sexual coupling.
