Psychology of Literature

Stitched Selves: A Psychoanalytic and Existential Deep Dive into the Broken Psyches of Frankenstein

Introduction Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is far more than a Gothic tale of scientific hubris—it is a masterwork of psychological portraiture, a literary x-ray of the human mind confronted with trauma, abandonment, and the fundamental question of what makes us human. Written while Shelley herself grieved the loss of her daughter, the novel emerges as […]