Early childhood deprivation, attachment chaos, repeated medical traumata, and abuse set up neural networks of dread, shame, worthlessness, and hopelessness: the phenomenology of abject experience that resides in implicit memory. Abject interactions with others condense yearning and despair into complex enactments of abject suffering. Working in abject subgroups dilutes the intensity of abject m...

by baroque, one implies the “general attitude” and “the formal quality” of a work of art which is trans-historical and “radiates through” histories, cultures, and works of art. in that way, just a seventeenth-century work of art cannot be considered baroque; on the other hand, even a postmodern work can display “baroque” features. however, as a slave to its era, the baroque of 2oth and 21th cen...

Across the disciplines and ages, human body has been approached as complex, political, mysterious. Caught in an intricate socio-cultural fabric, it acquires projects multiple patterns of symbolism, seized by literature to convey deep realities perplexing themes. The become be recognised eloquent metaphor for postcolonial writers, effectively staging resistance colonial practices discourse. It i...

The Lebanese Civil War, stretching over two decades of Lebanon's history, features prominently in any discussion Rabih Alameddine's An Unnecessary Woman (2014), a novel fashioned according to the pent-up frustrations post-trauma period. manifests traumatic signposts civil war, which make it indelibly situational, and accordingly latches onto complex psychological issues. It is branded with mark...