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Thomas J. Farrell's Further Reflections on His Life and Work

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Perhaps I need more time to distance myself from being preoccupied with Mandy Flores before I will be able to discern and articulate what other feelings I have also been experiencing in recent weeks in 2025.

In other words, perhaps I am still too close to being preoccupied with Mandy Flores to discern what other feelings I have also been experiencing in recent weeks in 2025.

But let me now say something else about discernment of spirits (a term in Jesuit spirituality and also more generally in Catholic spirituality).

From the late Jungian psychotherapist and psychological theorist Rober Moore (1942-2016; Ph.D. in religion and spirituality, University of Chicago, 1975), I have learned that we have four masculine archetypes of maturity with two accompanying "shadow" forms each, and four feminine archetypes of maturity also with two accompanying "shadow" forms each in our psyches.

As a result, one way in which we can engage in discernment of spirits is to identify a specific archetype of maturity or a "shadow" form of an archetype of maturity that is the spirit in our psyche that we are sensing and experiencing.

Now, in the specific case of my current and ongoing preoccupation with Mandy Flores' body and her various performances in the role of the wonderfully seductive mom in her many charming mom-son pern videos, I am sure that I am experiencing in my psyche the optimal and positive form of the masculine Lover archetype in my psyche at the current time in my life.

Now, because I am here crediting the optimal and positive form of the masculine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche with powering my preoccupation with Mandy Flores in March and April 2025, I now also need to point out that in my extremely wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word 665th OEN article titled "Fareed Zakarian and Fareed Zakaria on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025). I credit Mandy Flores in her performances as the wonderfully seductive mom in her many charming mom-son porn videos with accessing the four optimal and positive form of each of four archetypes of maturity in her psyche:

(1) the optimal and positive form of the Queen archetype of maturity in her psyche;

(2) the optimal and positive form of the feminine Warrior/Knight archetype of maturity in her psyche;

(3) the optimal and positive form of the feminine Magician/Shaman archetype of maturity in her psyche;

(4) the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in her psyche.

In short, I have characterized the now-retired pornstar Mandy Flores as a remarkably formidable woman in her various performances as the wonderfully seductive mom in her many charming mom-son porn videos that are available free on the internet.

Now, looking back today to Freburary 1974, I am also now sure that the optimal and positive form of the masculine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche was drawing me to be attracted to my fellow graduate student at Saint Louis University who lived in the same apartment building that I lived in adjacent to the north campus of Saint Louis University.

In any event, she was involved in my experience of a mental breakdown in late February 1974 and in my hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital for about a week to ten days in late February 1974 and early March. After I got out of the hospital in early March, she renewed our friendship and so our short but intense affair continued in March until she understandably ended it before the end of March. I say "understandably ended it" because at that time I was not a pleasant person to be around. My entire world had collapsed when I had my mental breakdown and was hospitalized as a result - I felt miserable; I felt sorry for myself; and I was a miserable person to be around.

However, one evening in March, after I had gotten out of the hospital, she called and asked if she could come up to my studio apartment. I said yes. When she came into my studio apartment, she immediately sat down in my yellow swivel chair and made it clear that she wanted to talk. She clearly wanted to tell me something. I had no idea what she was about to tell me about herself.

She told me about her years as an underage girl of sexual promiscuity. She told me that she always took the initiative to initiate having sex with the guy she went out on a date with. She also told me that guys from all over the greater St. Louis area called her and asked her to go on a date with them - and she always accepted going on a date with all the guys who called her and asked you to go on a date with them, and she always took the initiative to initiate having sex with them.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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