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Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) was an American author and teacher best known for his work in the field of comparative mythology.

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Anora, the Wounded Healer

The Healer, longed for by those in search of cures, is yet an intimidating, perhaps unrelatable, archetype, providing a vital act of care but not typically the protagonist of the myth. How then, you may rightly ask, can I suggest that the titular heroine of Sean Baker’s Anora (2024), a twenty-three-year-old sex worker played by Mikey Madison, is one of the great Healers we have seen on the silver screen in many years?

Teddy Hamstra, PhD

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