Janneker Lawrence

Chinese literature has often portrayed women as figures of sacrifice and care rather than active decision-makers. In contemporary Danmei (gay) literature, attention is usually focused on male–male relationships, cultivation power, and sect politics. This paper examines, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi) by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù,...

More than a classic children’s novel of revitalisation, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden isa proto-therapeutic text that anticipates modern bibliotherapy․ The garden is a space of transfiguration, trauma, illness, and isolation, giving way to growth, strength, and relational healing․ The text challenges to see bibliotherapy not as a supplement to psychology, but as a re-visioning of how stories themselves heal. 

The aim of this paper is to postulate the idea of ‘catastrophic time’ as a vast psychic split in the cultural memory framework.

The Namesake presents a compelling exploration of diasporic identity and the psychological complexities of migration in a globalized world. This paper examines how Jhumpa Lahiri portrays cultural displacement and generational tension through the experiences of the Ganguli family, particularly Gogol Ganguli’s struggle with his name as a marker of fractured identity.

Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929) presents a narrative through which the protagonist Frederic Henry navigates choices that correspond to the philosophical stages articulated by Søren Kierkegaard. This article examines how the novel structures Henry’s progression from a detached participant in war to a committed lover, from a deserter to an isolated survivor, demonstrating parallels with Kierkegaard’s aesthetic, ethical, and religious spheres of existence.

This paper aims to unfold the idea of freedom for a woman from patriarchal constraints by elucidating the psychological suffering of the heroines. Moreover, the comparative study will also extend what ephemeral female autonomy achieves for these two women and the meaning behind this fragile as well as treacherous road to psychological...

Drawing on post humanist thought, memory and trauma studies, the paper attempts to highlight that cyborg characters of the cold war eraare not merely speculative constructs, but embodiments of fractured psyche shaped by military tensions, technological anxieties, and personal conflicts.

This paper analyses trauma, voice, and psychological resistance in Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You:Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife. 

The paper examines the cathartic function of narratives in the film Freedom Writers directed by Richard La Gravenese.

The unconscious mind’s hidden desires, fears, and unresolved conflicts have long been thought to be represented symbolically in dreams. This paper examines the concept of dream psychology in The Alchemist through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory.