In this episode of the Symbolic World podcast, I am playing for you a reflection I had on the

Christmas symbolism of Little Jack Horner, that famous nursery rhyme. This will be the last video

about Christmas that I'm posting in the middle of the year. As I've said before, hopefully within a few

months, I will have caught up all the videos and the podcast so that my videos on YouTube and my podcasts will be coming out at the same time.

But nonetheless, I think that thinking about nursery rhymes, something that can seem so silly, so immediate, can harbor some very profound symbolism.

I think it is a worthwhile exercise to do in

order to understand narrative and symbolism. So I think you will enjoy this and we'll, next time

you hear about a Christmas video for me, it'll probably be actually around Christmas. And so just

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So, as I've said before in other videos, what's important to understand when we look at this nursery rhyme is to look at the structure.

If you go online, if you go on the Wikipedia page and you try to understand the meaning of this nursery rhyme,

you will find all kinds of theories about some historical grounding in the Middle Ages or in, you know,

later history and how it appeared in the 18th century as a social commentary on this or that event.

And what you'll find is that it's not clear exactly where it comes from. And to be, to be honest,

my point is that it's not that important.

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