Babylon, Pleasure Island, Sodom and Gomorrah, and Ed Hurley's wig? Join us at Cafe Unconscious where we talk about "One Eyed Jacks," the device of the "decadent space," and why dens of desire are always framed as cautionary tales. Come for the Peaks analysis - stay for the Billy Joel talk.

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0:00 Life is good -- and it's good to be back

2:33 Billy Joel, songwriting, and storytelling

11:38 One Eyed Jacks scenes (Season 1, Ep 6-7)

14:30 Life goals: Individuation "versus" Enlightenment

19:02 Mark Frost, Jung, and The Legend of Zelda

20:40 Archetypal motifs and One Eyed Jacks (and creation stories at large)

27:47 One Eyed Jacks is more interesting symbolically than plotwise

32:50 Twin Peaks and Pinocchio

44:36 Cooper and Audrey

51:48 The main Cafe Unconscious point about One Eyed Jacks

55:00 This is a time-worn cautionary story

57:48 Billy Joel and who does alright in Twin Peaks

1:04:05 Molesting a coconut, backflipping off a mountain, etc

1:08:00 Metaphoric functions of OEJ and other settings

1:12:15 Symbolic intentions and The Sopranos Writers' Room

1:15:30 What have we learned here tonight?

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Café Unconscious is a "Twin Peaks theory" podcast focusing on connecting media influence, psychology and symbolism into true understandings of the narrative. Can a Twin Peaks “theory of everything” open up NEW mysteries in Twin Peaks rather than closing down old ones? Yes indeed.

So grab a seat, order a single-source blend of high quality, unknowable, speculative refreshments, and enjoy.

A video version of this episode is here: Ep 9: One Eyed Jacks and Twin Peaks

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