the bittersweet constrain

violet , 20s

[kuutamosonaatti]

Marisa Berenson in Barry Lyndon (1975)

[wannabeyourgun]

Lake Mungo (2008)

[litteraeignotae]

The First Omen (Arkasha Stevenson, 2024)

[devineroticism]

let’s frame papa for murder with mama

[theinternetarchive]

'minuet,' frank eugene, 1900.

[derangedrhythms]

[…] you please me, and you master me—you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced—conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win. 

Charlotte Brontë, from ‘Jane Eyre’

[isabelleadjani]

POSSESSION dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981

[tyazz]

Me As fuck when there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me, I gain no deeper knowledge of myself and the confession means nothing

[charmingnotion]

Jean Cocteau’s La belle et la bête, 1946

[liamgallagheresque]

[damiencrane]

I will always love you.

[funeral]

Dissociation is a trick the psyche plays on itself. It allows life to go on by dividing up the unbearable experience and distributing it to different compartments of the mind and body, especially the "unconscious" aspects of the mind and body. This means that the normally unified elements of consciousness (i.e., cognitive awareness, affect, sensation, imagery) are not allowed to integrate. Experience itself becomes discontinuous. Mental imagery may be split from affect, or both affect and image may be dissociated from conscious knowledge. Flashbacks of sensation seemingly disconnected from a behavioral context occur. The memory of one's life has holes in it—a full narrative history cannot be told by the person whose life has been interrupted by trauma.

Donald Kalsched, The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Spirit

[iveseenitinmovies]

an alternative version of this post

[horror-aesthete]

Shadow of a Doubt, 1943, dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[doulie]

wuthering heights, illustrated by isabella mazzanti.

[shiva-mizani]

[fairycosmos]

OHHHH i get it now i was supposed to die as a child