#Lit

[khachkars]

The Hurting Kind - Ada Limón

[mournfulroses]

Megan Nolan, from her novel titled "Acts of Desperation," originally published in March 2021

[feelingsoftheday]

girls be like “i hate this man” then have sex with him

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Psychology

more psychological concepts as reference for your poem/story

Absent grief - a form of complicated grief in which a person shows no, or only a few, signs of distress about the death of a loved one. This pattern of grief is thought to be an impaired response resulting from denial or avoidance of the emotional realities of the loss.

Being love - (or B-love) in Abraham Maslow’s humanistic psychology, a form of love characterized by mutuality, genuine concern for another’s welfare and pleasure, and reduced dependency, selfishness, and jealousy. B-love is one of the qualities Maslow ascribes to self-actualizers.

Cyclopean eye - a theoretical eye, located on the midline between the real eyes, that has access to the functions of both eyes and is used in descriptions of space perception and eye movements.

Dream ego - in the analytic psychology of Carl Jung, a fragment of the conscious ego that is active during the dream state.

Epiphany - a sudden perception of the essential nature of oneself, others, or reality.

Family mythology - the shared stories, norms, and beliefs within a family system. The mythology can be used to deny trauma or pathology within the family or to ascribe meaning to events in ways that suggest their inevitability or importance.

Guilt culture - a trend or organizing principle in a society characterized by the use of guilt to promote socially acceptable behavior. Guilt cultures emphasize both self-control in the face of temptation and self-initiated responsibility for one’s actions if transgressions should occur.

Hedonic treadmill - a metaphor for a hypothesis proposing that people’s happiness tends to return to a preexisting baseline level after positive or negative life events have occurred. According to this concept, positive and negative events may produce short-term shifts in mood, but these shifts tend to erode in a relatively brief period of time. This process of adaptation is thought to be responsible for the persistence of mood states over time, often in the face of considerable efforts to change them. Although there is good evidence for this hypothesis, research has demonstrated that people do not always return to baseline after the occurrence of mood-changing events.

Jactitation - (or jactation) extreme restlessness marked by frequent movements and tossing about.

Leaving the field - the act of removing oneself from a situation when confronted with seemingly insurmountable obstacles, insoluble conflicts, or intensely frustrating problems. It may involve physical withdrawal, escape into psychogenic illness, or some other behavior, such as distraction or changing the subject during a conversation.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Part 1 2 3 ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[thoughtkick]

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives.

Lemony Snicket

[freddieardley]

Beyond the forest lies the moor. Somerset

Hasselblad X2D 45mm XPan

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

[newsupdate2]

Maybe. U need to see this video. Video link

Dropping this over here just because

[emotionalwords]

[mournfulroses]

Megan Nolan, from her novel titled "Acts of Desperation," originally published in March 2021

[feelingsoftheday]

stop making yourself easily available for people who never prioritize you.

[twelvebooksstuff]

This has such Jurassic Park vibes to me.

richard siken, the language of birds / rae armantrout, prayers

[Text ID: The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear : that something does.

The fear / that all this will end. / The Fear / that it won't. /End ID]

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[thoughtkick]

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart, Damage

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[woundsoflove]

A gentle waltz beneath the sky's deep blue.

Madison Julius Cawein, “Dusk In The Woods”