All garden entries tagged with "fragmentation of identity".
3 entries across the garden
Six books in, the Dungeon Crawler Carl series keeps proving it’s smarter than its absurdist premise suggests, and Gate of the Feral Gods might be the darkest entry yet. Dinniman continues to use the game-show dungeon as a brutally effective metaphor for systems that consume the people trapped inside them, and this installment leans hard […]
The article provides a comprehensive overview of Trauma Studies as a field of literary theory and criticism, tracing its evolution from its 19th-century psychoanalytic roots to contemporary literary frameworks. The core concepts and historical shifts detailed in the article can be broken down as follows: Foundations in Freudian Psychoanalysis The field’s core psychological concepts rely […]
Trauma theory began, as so much of modern literary criticism does, with Freud. In Studies on Hysteria, he and Joseph Breuer proposed that an extreme event isn’t traumatic in the moment so much as it becomes traumatic later, surfacing during a latency period when some unrelated trigger calls the repressed memory back up. Decades later, […]
