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The Myth of Gothic Land
Drawing by my talented sister, Mercedes Domínguez
A descent into the untold story of your mind, body, and soul
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Every journey begins with discomfort. Mine began with an existential quest.
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What started as a fascination with Gothic literature, with ghosts, monsters, and the shadows of the human psyche, soon revealed itself as something more: a symbolic language. A mirror. A myth I could call my own.
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Over time, this myth grew into a vision: The School of Thought of the Gothic Psyche, a framework that brings together Gothic storytelling, Jungian psychology, and mythopoetic wisdom. Its purpose is to help us remember what we have forgotten: that our suffering is symbolic, our bodies speak in metaphors, and our souls whisper through the irrational.
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From Wonderland to Gothic Land
As a child named Alicia, Alice in Wonderland always felt strange, fragmented, even frightening; a dreamlike world of masks, cruelty, and riddles. I disliked it, but it clung to me. Only years later did I realise why: beneath its nonsense, it carried the Gothic’s truth.
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Through literature, I glimpsed archetypes, shadows, and psychic realities. Through Jungian psychology, I found the language to name them. Together, they opened a path of descent: a way of entering the symbolic so that body, mind, and soul could speak. ​​​​​
The Three Gates of the Descent
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At the heart of the Gothic Psyche are three gates. Three mythic thresholds that mirror lived experience. They are not abstractions; they are ways of inhabiting our truth:
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The Body as a Haunted House
Fatigue, illness, trauma... the body remembers it all. It speaks in symbols. To listen to it is to uncover the stories you carry.
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The Mind as an Archetypal Universe
Dreams, anxiety, and neurodivergence are not errors, but patterns of meaning. Your mind is a symbolic architecture, not a flaw to be corrected.
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The Soul as a Daemonic Guide
That quiet dread, that longing, that irrational pull toward the unknown is the daemon’s voice. It disrupts, but it also transforms.
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These gates form the mythic map of the Gothic Descent: a journey inward that reveals what the outer world has taught us to ignore.
The Invitation
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This is not a place for fixing yourself. It is a place for remembering. For listening. For giving form to what aches in your body, whispers in your mind, and hungers in your soul.
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The Gothic Psyche is an invitation to walk through your inner world with intention, to reconnect with your myth, and to allow discomfort to become a doorway.
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If something stirred as you read this, such as a recognition, a shiver, a sense of being seen, then you are already at the threshold.
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I invite you to step further: join my circle of reflections, dream symbols, body-based insights, and offerings. This is not just another newsletter. It is the first step into the School of the Gothic Psyche, where descent begins with truth.
