For further information about the masculine Lover archetype of maturity in the male psyche, see Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette's accessible self-help book The Lover Within: Accessing the Lover [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (1993b).
In Robert Moore's complete theory of the eight archetypes of maturity in the human psyche, there are four masculine and four feminine archetypes of maturity in the human psyche. I have written about Robert Moore's complete theory of the eight archetypes of maturity in my landmark (for me) OEN article "Robert Moore on Optimal Human Psychological Development" (dated September 17, 2024; viewed 1,883 times as of July 29, 2026).
In it, I argue that the Roman Catholic Church's moral vision of individual personal development involves the Impotent Lover "shadow" forms of the masculine Lover archetype of maturity and of the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in the human psyche.
Now, in the present OEN article, I am calling attention to the experience of being a fan as involving the optimal and positive forms of the masculine Lover archetype of maturity and the feminine Lover archetype of maturity.
Now, Ong famously coined the term secondary oral culture to refer to the contemporary culture brought to us by the communication media that accentuate sound such as movies and television and DVDs. Our contemporary secondary oral culture emerged decisively around 1960 when most American homes had television sets.
In the present essay, I emphasize my experiences of being a fan of certain television shows that I watch on DVDs and of being a fan of certain actresses in them. I assume that the readers will be able to relate to my experiences of being a fan of certain television shows and of certain actresses in them because they have also had the experiences of being a fan of certain televisions shows and of certain stars in them.
I assume that people in what Ong refers to as primary oral cultures had experiences of being fans of the heroes of songs sung by oral singers of tales such Achilles in the Homeric epic the Iliad and Odysseus in the Odyssey. However, from what we know about primary oral cultures and singers of tales, primary oral people did not have the experience of being fans of female heroes in the heroic songs sung by singers of tales.
Concerning singers of tales, see Albert B. Lord's landmark book The Singer of Tales (1960). Ong never tied of touting The Singer of Tales.
In any event, I see my experiences of being a fan of the busty (37") young Lynda Carter in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume and of the seven other actresses I name in the DVD versions of old television shows that I am a fan of are expressions unique to our contemporary secondary oral culture brought to us by communication media that accentuate sound, including television.
Now, in the present article, I also succinctly highlight five of my OEN articles, including one titled simply "Young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman" (dated September 3, 2024; viewed 2,285 times as of July 29, 2026). It is my account of how I became deeply infatuated with the gloriously beautiful body of the busty (37") young Lynda Carter in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume in the fall of 2024 - which infatuation was accompanied by my memorable experience of feeling wonderfully exuberant for about ten weeks. In any event, the Wonder Woman television series of the late 1970s starring the young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman has been shown on television in syndication since then; even so, I am still surprised that my OEN article matter-of-fact title "Young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman" (dated September 3, 2024) was viewed 2,285 times as of July 29, 2026. Perhaps young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman has far more fans than I expected.
In the present wide-ranging and deeply personal OEN article, I candidly discuss how I am a fan - and how I am thereby infatuated, and how I am thereby in love with certain individual persons and with certain individual television series.
I assume that all OEN readers have been fans of a certain person or of a certain television show. Therefore, I assume that OEN readers might be interested in my reflections hereabout my own experiences of being a fan.
To be a fan of a certain person or of a certain television show involves feeling infatuated with and in love with that certain person or with that certain television show.
But being infatuated with a certain person or with a certain television show involves feeling in love with that person or with that television show.
This has been the premise of my various OEN articles in 2024 and 2025 about being a fan and thereby feeling infatuated and in love.
Now, in my 220 or so OEN articles about Ong's thought, I have usually discussed his massively researched 1958 book Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason as his pioneering landmark study of the print culture that emerged in our Western cultural history after the Gutenberg printing press emerged in Europe in the mid-1450s. Peter Ramus (1515-1572) was the French Renaissance logician and educational reformer and Protestant martyr.
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