Evolution of Cuckoo-spit and the Froghoppers
ID: Perigee (impulsive, instinctive, hidden, submerged)
EGO: Carrie-Anne/Cuckoo-spit (internal repression is carried and understood more fully by the ego as it burgeons through the Id)
SUPER EGO: Apogee (aims for perfection) not conscious of the Id – only works to confine the Ego while the id just is what it is and does what it does.
Cuckoo-spit and the Froghoppers started around 2010, when a thorough outline began to form. The writing started later, after finishing Demiurge. After spending so long developing that fantasy world, I wanted Cuckoo-spit and the Froghoppers to have a distinct tone and narrative voice. Concentrating on this, I formed the narrative differently, dividing it between Apogee and Perigee … caught between, of course, is the protagonist, Carrie Anne/Cuckoo-spit, who, over time, takes on the tone of both narratives. (At least, that’s what I challenged myself to do, as the author.)
Having spent quite a long time in Drudunda, writing Demiurge, I wanted to shift gears and write something very different, focusing on a Sci-Fi narrative instead. So I built Traeih, a world divided between two distinctly different cultures. Noticing this was not an uncommon trope in Sci-Fi stories, I traced what was most common in similar divides. Looking them over, it seemed to me, most were divided between rich and poor or warmongering and peace keeping. Usually, this divide speaks to some version of a dominant and submissive power. I didn’t want that. Those seem to me more like a result of something. Instead, I wanted to get closer, I wanted to explore the mind. So I set Carrie-Anne off on what I considered a kind of hero’s journey, taking her around Apogee, then to Perigee and back again after everything changed.
Sooo … I made the divide model the Id, Ego and Super ego, (outlined above). It’s why Pinks can see Carrie-Anne’s dreams and how Cuckoo-spit is able to bridge the gap between both cultures … by “falling” off a bridge, accessing the internal, a subterranean world, sharing with it the unconscious repression of the world above. (:
Note, I’m sure there’s plenty of criticism of Freud’s methodologies, but I’m not sure why that would justify them NOT being in a work of fiction?
Anyway. Hope you enjoy:
Cuckoo-spit and the Froghoppers
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