Harry Potter and the Secret of Chambers. A psychoanalytic viewpoint. (original) (raw)

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The unconscious importance of the Harry Potter world for growing children.er, 2004

The unconscious importance of the Harry Potter world for growing children (and adults) is explored. * Please note that this paper will most likely be incomprehensible for those who have no familiarity at all with any of the Harry Potter books or films.

Harry Potter and the Unsettling Subalterns

In this paper, it is argued that Firenze, the centaur, Griphook, the goblin,and Dobby, the house-elf can be seen to function within a complex dialectic of appropriation and resistance that mirrors enduring patterns of colonial and postcolonial interaction. Similarly, it will be suggested that the uneasy positions occupied by these characters may correspond in some ways to that of Gayatri Spivak’s (1992) ‘subaltern”, a colonial subject constructed both by European discourse and his or her internalization of that discourse.

Janina Scarlet: Harry Potter Therapy: An Unauthorized Self-Help Book from the Restricted Section

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2017

In Harry Potter Therapy: An Unauthorized Self-Help Book from the Restricted Section, Janina Scarlet delivers a selfhelp book for young Harry Potter fans to help them better cope with psychosocial struggles. For those questioning the market for a program this specific, it should be mentioned that as of 2017, “more than 400 million copies of Harry Potter titles have been sold worldwide,” with translations in more than 60 languages (Rapp and Thakker 2017). They should also note that the most recent (eighth) Harry Potter story, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, was the bestselling book of 2016. Full text: http://rdcu.be/xKjC