TROLLING WITH THE FISHER KING

<p><em><u>Trolling with the Fisher King</u></em> started with the author’s fascination with Amfortas in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s <em>Parzival</em> whose mission was to protect the Holy Grail the container that unites suffering and love his inevitable distraction by the outer world and subsequent betrayal of the mission after sustaining a wound in battle that would not heal.  Paul Pines uses the tools Jung employed in his confrontation with the unconscious in <em>The Red Book</em> gathering symbolic patterns and inter-disciplinary connections to interrogate his personal experience and what he finds in the world within and around him.</p><p>As a fisherman/seaman touched by war zones and wastelands in Viet Nam and the Bowery a poet/therapist who has worked with his own wounds and those of others author Paul Pines believes that the Fisher King’s wounding can be understood as a function that speaks to our post-internet condition on the border of survival and extinction.</p><p> </p>