Abstract
In all its forms, art can be considered one of the most significant reflections of the mind, human morality and spirituality. It is part of what differentiates homo sapiens from other animal species and marks each culture's peculiarities. Understandably, art has been studied by psychologists who have considered it as an open window to the most intimate psyche not only of its authors, but of their viewing and reading public and, sometimes, of their communities and historical times. Literature is a form of art that often uses archetypal elements and symbolisms easily analyzed from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, and Diana Gabaldon's Outlander dystopian, modernist, and fantasy novels interestingly exemplify the concepts of Freudian trauma and suppression, Jungian spirituality, Oedipus complex, and mass hysteria.
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