Fragmentation &
Identity
What leads us to fragmentation?
There are moments when the roles, relationships and stories through which we recognise ourselves no longer fit together.
What happens when parts of our experience cannot find a place within the identity we are expected to maintain?
Gothic literature and horror give form to divided selves,
interrupted lives and experiences that revisit a coherent telling.
Doubles, ghosts and fractured narratives invite us to explore what is lost, silenced or excluded, and what happens to our sense of self when a relationship, a role or an imagined future is gone.
A fragmented narrative does not necessarily represent a damaged self. Each reading asks what fragmentation means within that particular work.
Inside this catacomb
Questions We Explore
What happens when belonging requires us to leave parts of ourselves unspoken?
How do motherhood, care and social expectations shape the identities available to us?
What do doubles and ghosts reveal about our present and former selves?
When does a story seek coherence, and when does it ask us to live with contradiction?
Choose a starting point
Begin with
Mary Winchester
ACADEMIC ESSAY
Explore identity, motherhood and death through the different roles and perspectives that shape our understanding of Mary.
The Places that
hold us
AUTUMN MAGAZINE · ENGLISH & SPANISH
Begin with Alma Mater and the tension between belonging and the possibilities we leave unexplored.
Palabras no escritas
CROWFUNDING · DIARIO PARA MADRES ESCRITORAS 2
A contribution to a collective volume bringing together mothers to write about their relationship with writing.
The Great Mother in the TV series Dark
IN PROGRESS · UNDER SUPERVISION
An ongoing investigation into grief, recursion and the Great Mother arquetype in Dark.
More about this work soon.
Continue through the catacombs
These questions connect with other parts of the library.
