Tag: psychology

• [opinion] Why I Think “The Last of Us: Part II” Will Be Forgotten

  

  Why will The Last of Us: Part II most likely be forgotten? Why should it be forgotten? I think TLOU:P2 lacks the necessary elements to appeal to a universal audience. I haven’t played the first part or the second part, and I don’t intend to because the genre is generally unappealing to me. However, after reading the…

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  July 5, 2020

  culture, gaming, literary critique, literature, thought piece

  devouring mother, jung, psychology, the last of us, the last of us part 2, tyrannical mother, video games

• [posting][review] Top Five Intellectual Anime Shows

  

  One of the common misconceptions about anime is that it is a strange and goofy genre designed for middle school students, but while that is true about quite a few that have had massive impact in Western culture (I’m looking at you, One Piece and Naruto), quite a few anime have been created specifically for…

  dappled-things

  May 26, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction, review, thought piece

  AI, animation, anime, art, critique, culture, ergo proxy, ethics, history, ideologies, intellectual, japanese culture, japanese history, narratives, philosophy, psycho-pass, psychology, robotics, samurai champloo, sayonara zetsubo sensei, sci-fi, scifi, social issues, society, steins;gate, technology, time travel

• [posting] Carmilla and Laura: Feminine Representation

  

  Setting aside the moral descent and ascent of Alucard in the Hellsing manga series and internal dilemmas of Father Abel in the sci-fi horror manga Trinity Blood, most popular vampire imaginings today often fail to delve into the psychological and spiritual world of the vampire, choosing instead to focus on the human drama or the…

  dappled-things

  May 20, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction

  archetypes, carmilla, dark feminine, femininity, freud, gothic, gothic literature, heimlich, jung, laura, le fanu, literature, psychology, vampire