The Myth
The Myth Behind The Gothic Descent
The idea came up in a dream. As many ideas do.
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Powerful, noisy, sad, and full of energy, the Gargoyle flew around what looked like my own library, with ancient towering walls, uneven floors, one room for workshops, and an unfinished descent into a bright emptiness.
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My analyst suggested it was my “Daemon” speaking to me. I had wrongly assumed it was a Shadow figure.
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“I am the guardian of the place. I have been here all along,” it told me when I finally decided to face it.
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Little did I know I would have to undergo a painful descent that remains, even now, partly hidden from my conscious mind.
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Dreams are a big part of my life, and deciphering them can sometimes feel like a literary exercise. That is one of the reasons I love writing so much.
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The energy behind a writing project often resembles the emotional force of certain dreams.
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Humans create stories because they allow individuals and communities to explore experiences that ordinary language cannot easily contain.
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We all follow a myth in one way or another, and certain artistic creations can help us understand what that myth looks like.
Choose Your Descent
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​Why do individuals, families and even societies lose their sense of coherence? This investigation explores how literature, horror and psychology reveal the hidden processes through which trauma, memory, sacrifice and disconnection gradually fracture our inner lives, and what these stories can teach us about rebuilding meaning today.
What do we do with what we cannot integrate?
Every society produces figures that disturb, frighten or resist explanation: ghosts, monsters, outsiders and forgotten memories. This investigation explores what these symbolic figures reveal about the experiences that cultures struggle to recognise, and why learning to approach them with curiosity rather than fear matters today.
How does motherhood become a horror experience?
Motherhood is often portrayed as either idealised or monstrous, leaving little room for its complexity. This investigation examines how Gothic narratives illuminate experiences of care, loss, reproductive grief, identity and social expectation, helping us understand why some forms of suffering remain so difficult to acknowledge.
How do stories help us think what ordinary language cannot?
Some experiences exceed the limits of everyday language. Literature, horror, dreams and myth allow us to imagine what cannot yet be easily explained. This investigation explores how symbolic narratives expand our capacity to think, feel and engage with complexity without reducing it to simple answers.
What happens when a culture loses its connection with the forces that sustain life?
Many contemporary stories return to images of descent, recursion, ecological collapse and the Great Mother. Rather than treating these as fantasy, this investigation asks what they reveal about our relationship with grief, time, care, nature and the hidden foundations that make individual and collective life possible.
