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Category: Psychology

The Masque of the Black Death

Posted March 16, 2020 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Death, Digital Media & Videogames, Literature & Narrative, Poetry & Prose, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Social Interaction & Networks

The Plague laughs behind its mask, because it can wear any.

Requiem aeternam

Posted November 15, 2019November 19, 2020 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Death, Gender & Sexuality, Psychology, Religion

In a sig­ni­fic­ant sense, I died on the night of Novem­ber 19th, 2017.

Jealousy

Posted July 27, 2019 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Gender & Sexuality, Posts by Topic:, Psychology, Social Interaction & Networks

You want what is not yours : jealousy /
You want what you can­not have : jealousy

Ace of Cups

Posted July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Death, Dreams, Gender & Sexuality, Psychology

When you have a hys­teric per­son­al­ity (dis­order), like I do, all the world is a stage. 

“Wherefore was I given life?”

Posted May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Death, Poetry & Prose, Psychology, Religion

Because it’s Söder­gran time again.

Self-love #1: conquering ‘narcissism’

Posted December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Gender & Sexuality, Psychology

A requiem for a man that’s not in my life anymore.

The Symbolic Order of Life and Manhood

Posted November 7, 2018November 18, 2018 Odile Aurora1 CommentPosted in Death, Ethics, Gender & Sexuality, Mythology, Politics, Psychology, Social Interaction & Networks, War, Violence & Terrorism

The circle of man­hood is at the cen­ter of the circle of life, which is bound by death.

1001 books

Posted August 23, 2018September 1, 2018 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Poetry & Prose, Psychology

Like my own Shahrazad, I’ve told myself 1,001 stor­ies to keep myself dis­trac­ted from (doing) bad things.

Quantum Hands

Posted December 5, 2017August 19, 2018 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Death, Dreams, Miscellaneous, Mystery, Psychology, Space & Spatiality

For as long as I can remem­ber I have been hav­ing a vis­ion. Not always, not every night, but recur­ring through­out my life. The vis­ion always appears at the crepus­cu­lar bound­ary between wak­ing and sleep, when I settle down in my bed and pre­pare to leave the day behind.

Transformations

Posted August 19, 2017 Odile AuroraLeave a commentPosted in Gender & Sexuality, Miscellaneous, Psychology

On men­tal health, the dis­cov­ery of being trans, and reclaim­ing my writerly self.

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