A Freudian analysis of why we are drawn to literature and what it does for us.
Tag Archives: Bruno Bettelheim
Freud: Lit Leads to Self Mastery
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Interpretation of Dreams, Joseph Conrad, Oedipus, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sigmund Freud, Sophocles Comments closed
Lit as a Survival Toolkit
Thursday Friend and occasional guest blogger Carl Rosin alerted me to a heartfelt Commonweal article by an English professor describing how literature helped her confront and work through childhood abuse. Cassandra Nelson’s difficult history leads to some remarkable insights into trigger warnings, which she opposes. Nelson’s view on trigger warnings is pretty much my own […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bluest Eye, Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, childhood trauma, Dante, Inferno, Junot Diaz, King Lear, sexual abuse, sexual assault, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Pinocchio, a Horror Story
Disney’s “Pinocchio” sugarcoats the original, which is the stuff of nightmares. Happy Halloween.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Carlo Collodi, fantasy, Halloween, morality tales, Pinocchio, Uses of Enchantment Comments closed
