Ordinary Unhappiness

BONUS EPISODE: Romantasy, Fantasy, and Trauma


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Abby joins Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub on one of our favorite podcasts, In Bed With the Right! The topic is romantasy - as a genre of fiction, as a publishing phenomenon, and, above all, as a cultural symptom. What do readers - and women specifically - find in romantasy narratives? How does reading relate to play, and fantasy to trauma and healing? The three explore all these questions and more!

Texts include:

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses series

Rebecca Yarros, Empyrean series

Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery 

Andrea Dworkin, Women Hating

Sigmund Freud, "Creative Writers and Daydreaming" (1907)

Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you’ve traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! (646) 450-0847
 
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Theme song:
Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1
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