Read Yourself
LN JamesUnderstanding Ourselves Through Literature Essays on literature, psychology, and the human condition. Exploring grief, shame, identity, love, and belonging through the books that help us understand ourselves.
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You’re Too Much: Female Rage, Greek Tragedy, and the Silence We Learn in Medicine
John Martin’s The Great Day of His Wrath (1851–53)
The first word of the Iliad is rage.
Achilles’ anger is large enough to become an epic. His rage is destructive, but it is allowed to be enormous, and it becomes history.
Female rage rar...
How to Create a Monster
Those fortunate enough to love and grieve safely can perhaps bear this tension. Those who are not often respond with the only logic they are taught — the logic of power.
What makes a monster? I find myself wanting literature to give me a c...
To the Lighthouse, Without You
Bell Rock Lighthouse (1824), Illus. in: Robert Stevenson, An Account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
What does it mean to be close to someone? To know their stories, to recognize their laugh, to have been there when they could barely get thro...
A Dying Child, Dostoevsky, and the Problem with “Everything Happens for a Reason”
Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child (1903)
As I watched a child die on the table, a sentence arrived in my head unbidden.
Everything happens for a reason.
I did not think it. I didn't come to it. It was closer to a reflex, the way a ph...
The Monsters We Need: Tolstoy and Stevenson on Medicine and Dehumanization
The past month has been one of those stretches where the days blur together — 3:30 am alarms, lunches eaten standing up, sleep measured in fragments rather than hours. I’ve watched people die this month. One was a teenager. Another was a pa...
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Trying to understand life through books. Essays on literature, power, longing, morality, and the stories that shape us. Also, an aspiring fantasy author.
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