- Genius Bonus: The idea of the Angel and the Ape is a peristent one in mysticism: the idea of the lower and higher selves that the Adept must integrate and reconcile. freud also used the anology of the highest mind - the Superego - represented by the angel, and the lowest human drives - the Id - represented by a shambling beast-like Ape. Both Freudianism and various schools of occult thought had a rennaissance in The '60s and fuelled many a drug trip - and perhaps this original comic.
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