Janneker Lawrence

The Human Psyche as Belief Revision: A Bayesian Study of Modern Poetry
This paper explores the representation of the human psyche in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”by T. S. Eliot and “Notes on the Reality of the Self” from The End of Beauty by Jorie Graham.
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Trauma of Migration on Children in Reyna Grande’sThe Distance Between Us
Migration has been a recurring theme in transnational literature. But it has been mostly representing adults’ perspective, rather than that of children. This paper examines the experience of migration through a nine-year-old child in Reyna Grande’s memoir The Distance Between Us (2012).
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Psychopolitics in the digital Manufacture of Criminality in A Burning
Freedom is perceived by people of the state according to the governance, power and age. Freedom of speech from the past is modified to freedom of expression in comments of the present. Byung-Chul Han, a German philosopher, theologian andcultural theorist refers to this transformation of expression of thoughts in the digital era in Psychopolitics. According to that, contemporary power operates less through...
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Trauma and Human Psyche: A Study on Revathi’s The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story
In this paper, the concept of trauma and the human mind is discussed based on The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi, translated by V. Geetha, through a theoretical framework of Trauma Theory by Cathy Caruth.
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Home Exists Only in Memory: Nostalgia and Psychological Alienation in Benyamin’s Goat Days
This paper explores nostalgia and psychological alienation in Benyamin’s Goat Days by utilising Jerome Bruner’s Narrative psychology.
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Faith, Hypocrisy, and the Loss of Innocence in “Young Goodman Brown”
This research paper analyses Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” as a critical exploration of faith, hypocrisy, and human nature within Puritan society.
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Memory as Homeland: Trauma, Hybridity, and the Diasporic Psyche in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
This paper explores the complex interplay of memory, trauma, and diasporic identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.
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Cognitive Mechanisms of Narrative Identity in Second Language Discourse 
This paper proposes a psycholinguistic model for the cognitive mechanisms that underlie the formation of narrative identity in second language (L2) discourse.
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Cartographies of Memory: Fragmented Space, Disrupted History, and Constructed Identity in Amma Ariyan
The paper aims to examine Amma Ariyan (1986), directed by John Abraham, as a powerful exploration of memory and politicalconsciousness. 
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Material Afterlives and the Psychology of Displacement: Trauma, Memory, and Narrative Form in Remnants of a Separation
The 1947 Partition of India generated not only territorial division, but also enduring psychic dislocation. This paper examines the interrelationship between trauma, memory, and narrative reconstruction in Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra, arguing that the text reconfigures the archive of Partition through material objects and lived testimony. Rather than privileging...
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