The Wound and the Gift
Iron John
A Book About Men, by Robert Bly.
Where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
— Robert Bly
Why it belongs
Bly reads a single fairy tale as the map of a man's inner initiation—symbol and story as instruments of first-person transformation.
Echoes across the paths
The same structure, carried in other images—one tradition's metaphor mapping onto another's.