ABOUT THE DESCENT

Alice in Gothic Land is a body of work developed by Alicia Domínguez Pérez.

It brings together Gothic literature, symbolic thinking, and Jungian psychology to explore how human beings relate to shadow, grief, memory, and transformation.

Rather than approaching the Gothic as a genre, this project treats it as a psychological language, a way of giving form to experiences that are often difficult to articulate: rupture, ambivalence, loss, and the encounter with what is hidden in the psyche.

This work emerges from a combination of academic study and lived experience, and continues to evolve through writing, research, and reflection.

Over time, this exploration has developed into what could be described as a Gothic Psyche framework: an evolving, interdisciplinary way of reading literature, film, and cultural artefacts through symbolic and archetypal patterns.

Its aim is not clinical or therapeutic, but interpretative and symbolic. It offers a way of engaging with inner experience through images, narratives, and mythic structures, allowing different forms of understanding to emerge.

Selected publications and works

Alfar El Grande (2022)

Flash fiction story published in the anthology Crónicas Microvampíricas, a micro-story contest about vampires organised by Diversidad Literaria.

Palabras no escritas (2023)

"Diario para madres escritoras II, un nuevo comienzo". Collaborative crowdfunding literary project published by Diversidad Literaria.

The Misunderstood Role of Mary Winchester as a Fragmented Self (2026)
Identity, Motherhood and Death

"Women in Supernatural". Collection of critical essays on women in the TV series "Supernatural" directed by Amanda Taylor and Susan Nylander, and published by McFarland Publishers.

The Monstrous Mother: A Personal Journey Through Motherhood, Loss, and the Psychological Haunting Under the Gothic-Jungian Lens (2026)

Interdisciplinary anthology themed around Mothers, Mothering, Horror and Terror in Television, Film, and Literature, by Demeter Press.

Descent into the Great Mother: Grief, Recursion, and the Chthonic Matrix in Dark as a Representation of Modern Hubris and Inner Disconnection

Essay collection focused on the environmental and ecological, with views on what a “going back to” or “a return to something” might constitute and potentially how that might configure some kind of future.

The project is currently being produced and sent for review in 2026.

Seminars and collaborations

Romancing the Gothic

Virtual presentation at the Romancing the Gothic project on January 12, 2021.

Presentation name: The Gothic and Second Language Acquisition.

X Congreso sobre Arte, Literatura y Cultura Alternativa

Speaker for the 10th Congress of Art, Literature and Alternative Culture that took place between November 10 and 12, 2021 at the Complutense University of Madrid, in online format.

Communication title: Evolution of the ghost as a social figure
from medieval times to the present day.

Aquatic Surfaces and Depths: Haunted Shores 2023 Online Conference

Speaker for the conference on the 7th and 8th of April 2023 in virtual format.

Communication name: Archetypes of the sea and the unconscious mind in the TV series "Supernatural."

Congreso FOGO 2023: Folclore y gótico: entornos y presencias sobrenaturales en europa y las américas

Speaker during the 5th, 6th and 7th of July in virtual format.

Name of the paper: “Dones d’aigua”, folklore and archetypes of the female representation in Mercè Rodoreda’s Mirall Trencat.

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