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Carol's Literary Theory
Future
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Jacques Lacan
Lacan reimagines psychoanalysis through language and the mirror stage, proposing that the self is fragmented and formed through external perception.
Sigman Freud
Freud explores dreams, repression, and subconsciousness desire, arguing that hidden drives shape behavior and interpreation.
Present
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Karl Marx
Marx analyses labor, capitalism, and class relations, arguing that material and economic structures shape social life and consciousness.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi critiques colonialism through language, arguing that imposed languages can reshape identity, culture, and self-perception.
Gloria Anzaldúa
Anzaldúa explores hybridity, multilingual identity, and border consciousness, emphasizing identity as fluid and constantly negotiated.
Past
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois examines double consciousness and the last psychological and social effects of racism, arguing that Black identity is shaped through historical oppression and divided selfhood.
Saidiya Hartman
Hartman investigates grief, archival silence, and Black suffering, emphasizing how histories of violence continue to haunt the present.
Jahan Ramazani
Ramazani studies mourning across cultures, arguing that grief transcends national boundaries and becomes collective and transnational.
Danez Smith
Smith transforms elegy into political resistance, connecting racial violence, vulnerability, and communal grief within contemporary America.
Phillis Wheatley
Writing under slavery, Wheatley explores religion, displacement, and racial identity while revealing the contradictions of freedom and forced assimilation in early America.
Metaphysical
Édouard Glissant
Glissant develops the idea of opacity, arguing that people and cultures cannot always be fully understood or reduced to transparency.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzshe views tragedy as a confrontation with chaos and irrationality, challenging the dominance of pure reason and order.
Franz Kafka
Kafka explores alienation, inaccessible meaning, and the anxiety of communication through fragmented and uncertain narratives.
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I began to understand that grief is not simply emotional, but historical. Texts by Hartman and Du Bois made me realize how violence continues to live beyond the event itself, shaping identity, memory, and even the language people use to describe suffering. Mourning became less about closure and more about carrying history forward.
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Freud and Lacan changed the way I think about interpretation entirely. I became fascinated by the idea that people may never fully understand themselves, and that desire continuously produces new meanings rather than resolving them. Instead of seeing contradiction as failure, I began seeing instability as part of being human.
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I became increasingly interested in how systems disguise themselves as natural. Marx and Kafka especially shifted the way I think about everyday life, showing me that language, labor, and identity are constructed through relationships and power rather than existing independently. I started questioning how much of the self is truly "individual."
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Meaning cannot always be fully uncovered. Ambiguity and opacity are necessary parts of human experience, resisting total interpretation and certainty
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