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MEMORY, TRAUMA, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF, 2022
I analyze Sargent's character in "On the Road" from a religious point of view while also discussi... more I analyze Sargent's character in "On the Road" from a religious point of view while also discussing the abundance of religious images and references.
Staféta 5 (pg. 23-35), 2020
George R.R. Martin's series The Song of Ice and Fire is the current century's leading fantasy fic... more George R.R. Martin's series The Song of Ice and Fire is the current century's leading fantasy fiction. Underneath the story-line set in Medieval context one can find myths and characters that are the Jungian archetypes of human life. The aim of this paper is to analyze the character of Brandon Stark, focusing on his transformation from a boy into a shamanic figure. Making use of the life and death myths not only of Greek mythology- as interpreted by Robert Graves and Károly Kerényi-, but also of Norse, Japanese, Christian and Hindu ones, I intend to prove that Bran's shamanic character opens archaic layers of the story presented. His return from the "afterlife" has given him the power to see with a third eye, that is, the power of wargs, of skin-changers. By losing one ability (walking) he has gained that of inner sight, and the seeing of things otherwise unknown to men. He is the bridge between the world of man and the world of giants, wargs, spirits, and the preternatural. To prove that hypothesis I will make use of works by Mircea Eliade, such as "Images and Symbols,” “Eternal Return,“ “Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy,” and of Sir James Frazer's "The Golden Bough."
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MEMORY, TRAUMA, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF, 2022
I analyze Sargent's character in "On the Road" from a religious point of view while also discussi... more I analyze Sargent's character in "On the Road" from a religious point of view while also discussing the abundance of religious images and references.
Staféta 5 (pg. 23-35), 2020
George R.R. Martin's series The Song of Ice and Fire is the current century's leading fantasy fic... more George R.R. Martin's series The Song of Ice and Fire is the current century's leading fantasy fiction. Underneath the story-line set in Medieval context one can find myths and characters that are the Jungian archetypes of human life. The aim of this paper is to analyze the character of Brandon Stark, focusing on his transformation from a boy into a shamanic figure. Making use of the life and death myths not only of Greek mythology- as interpreted by Robert Graves and Károly Kerényi-, but also of Norse, Japanese, Christian and Hindu ones, I intend to prove that Bran's shamanic character opens archaic layers of the story presented. His return from the "afterlife" has given him the power to see with a third eye, that is, the power of wargs, of skin-changers. By losing one ability (walking) he has gained that of inner sight, and the seeing of things otherwise unknown to men. He is the bridge between the world of man and the world of giants, wargs, spirits, and the preternatural. To prove that hypothesis I will make use of works by Mircea Eliade, such as "Images and Symbols,” “Eternal Return,“ “Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy,” and of Sir James Frazer's "The Golden Bough."