Jeremy Griffith - The Roof is on Fire

Christopher Vincent

What resonances did you encounter? What questions or potentially challenges to this methodology emerged for you during the reading?

            I wanted to do a deeper study and questioning of the idea of the Myths in theater that is talked about on page 151. It was my favorite part of the reading, because of the ancient myths that were brought up. The story of the lagoon was the most engaging and it led me to considering the history throughout the centuries of this kind of mythical story telling that allows for subliminal and philosophical ideas to be talked about and passed down through these stories. It made me think of epics such as Iliad and Homer.

            A part of the reading that was the most challenging was actually on the same page and talked about the technique of breaking repression. This idea was slightly hard for me to grasp just because of the wording mostly, but it brought to mind a kind of parallel in comedy where you build the tension and then release it with the punch-line. The repression had to do with the participant having a deep connection and meaning to feeling or experiences that particular hardship and acting contrary to how they felt.

            I tried to consider times that I have felt similar things in order to better grasp the concept and I can definitely see it coming up in my spiritual journey and upbringing with Christianity and how that is a particularly heavy or controversial subject to talk about. Mostly because it is uncommon these days for younger people to have a personal commitment to that kind of spiritual practice.