#severance 2.02

[sunrisebayskylight]

Severance 1.04 | The You You Are ~ 2.02 | Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig

[gothicseverance]

Severance is doing all kinds of stuff with [Freudian theory]. Elevator? I think the elevator is all about suppression and repression, down down down, getting rid of all that other stuff, and then the little bits of the outies that start to come out, those are like little signs of neurosis, that are sending up flares from the interior, and the whole project of Severance is, much like psychoanalysis, to try to go back into what has been repressed and reconcile it with your social world outside.

—Critics at Large

[gothicseverance]

There are far more African American writers of gothic fiction than critics typically recognize, and these writers make critical interventions into the genre. Further, they rarely mimic traditional gothic conventions, which present various problems and threats for the black writer. Rather, black authors appropriate and revise the genre’s tropes in unique ways to both speak back to the tradition’s originators and to make it a capable and useful vehicle for expressing the terrors and complexities of black existence in America.

—African American Gothic

[gothicseverance]

In Gothic literature, the narrator or protagonist almost always spends some time (…) attempting to rationalize their ghostly encounters.

—Ghosts of the Mind

[gothicseverance]

‘Man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point.’

—The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde