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> Frederic Madre <fmadre at wanadoo.fr>
>
> 80 % is the action, a monster sows panic in a barracks the monster does 
> not have little balls, there is a long scene of combat in inn, a guy 
> fought against the monster, around him there is a crowd of soldiers at 
> the end the soldiers left a gun, and that has fact flees the phantom, 
> and they exploded the monster and it is the end.

# bait.switch.sabotage.and.frame, as with 'myth' above ^ so too below...
# quotes from: A Dictionary of Symbols. J.E. Cirlot, c.1962 NYC. p.203
# inserted clarifications by this writer/reader are inside curly-brackets


"MONSTERs: they are symbolic in the cosmic forces at a stage one
step removed from chaos - from the 'non-formal potentialities'.
On the psychological plane, they allude to the base powers which
constitute the deepest strata of spiritual geology, seething as in a
volcano until they erupt in the shape of some monstrous apparition
or activity...

"[Monsters] are...~par~excellence, the antithesis- or the adversary-
of the 'hero' {or states thereof} and of 'weapons'.  For weapons are
the positive powers granted to {private woman and} man by the deity,
and this is the explanation of the mysterious, miraculous or magical
context of weapons wielded by heroes {& heroines} in myth and legend.

"Weapons, then, are the symbolic antithesis to monsters {troublemakers?}.

"...paradoxically, the chimerical enemy - perversion, the fascination of
madness or of evil ~per~se - is the fundamental adversary in the life of
{private) Man (and Woman-kind). On the social plane, the motif of the
monster ravaging a country is symbolic of the ill-fated reign of a 
wicked,
tyrannical or impotent monarch. (15).

"The fight against a monster signifies the struggle to free consciousness
from the from the grip of the unconscious. The hero's {and-or heroines}
deliverance corresponds to the sunrise, the triumph of light over dark-
ness, of consciousness or the spirit over the affective strata of the
unconscious (31).  In a less negative sense, the monster may be
equated with the libido (56).

"Monsters are closely connected in symbolism with fabulous beings,
which afford a wider range of meanings embracing some that are
wholly favorable and positive such as Pegasus, the phoenix, etc."

Copyright 1962, Philosophical Library, New York City, New York, USA