Day: 7 October 2017

  • Ghosts, Flaws and the Psychic Wound in Fiction

    Ghosts, Flaws and the Psychic Wound in Fiction

    There are various words to describe the event from a main character’s past which holds them back in the present: the fatal flaw, the psychic wound, the ghost. “Our culture believes strong individuals can transcend their circumstances. I myself don’t much enjoy books by Hardy or Dreiser or Wharton, where the outside world is so […]

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