This paper examines the human mind in Beloved, written by Toni Morrison. The novel shows how past trauma affects a person's thoughts, emotions, and identity.
This crime narrative is examined through trauma and psychoanalytic perspectives in Cruel and Unusual (1993) by Patricia Cornwell, the fourth novel in the Kay Scarpetta forensic crime series. Through the protagonist of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Chief Medical Examiner exposes how reality is sometimes buried by political pressure and human error.
Life is a journey that moves toward an inevitable end, and this awareness gives meaning to human choices andactions. This paper explores how Don’t Leave Anything for Later: Stop Waiting, Start Living encourages readers to reflect on life,mortality, and personal growth.
This paper explores how video game storytelling reshapes the connection between the human psyche and narrative by bringing immersion and moral choice together.
This paper explores psychological conflict and the formation of subjectivity through the psychoanalytic concept of the divided self, drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.
The Beat Generation is known for their quest for spontaneous expression and altered forms of spiritual consciousness. Known for using psychedelics and other illicit substances, Beatniks revered deviancy not only in their lives but also in their craft. Their works often featured these substances as a thematic concern, or were...
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.
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).
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...
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.
