Literature and the Occult final semester expansion analysis essay: incorporated comprehensive examination and synthesis of the occult tradition as viewed from course texts, including final film screening, Destino, the occult as an intellectual history, defining and defending the occult within the realm of literature and film: what is it; where can it be found; what “destroys” the occult; what advantages are offered through its medium; what disadvantages?
On Defense: Deconstructing Offense Towards the Occult’s Validity
When the Occult—a rich historicity, practice, and interpersonal expansive medium—is posited in light of authority and institutionalism’s modern construct, one will find that it’s not the Occult that needs a defense, but the perpetuation of all that challenges it. Film becomes it’s most reliable transcription in the way the form’s creativity, theory, and technique externalizes the human inability to instinctually rely on tangible information and validity. In turn, as seen through Dali’s surrealism in Disney’s collaborative Destino, film reiterates the Occult’s essence, that of questioning, challenging, and inspiring the onlooker to consider beyond lethargic perception.