Addiction, Identity & Literature

Описание: Addiction, Identity & Literature explores how literature has long understood addiction not merely as a habit or moral failure, but as a crisis of identity.

Through four iconic figures — Edmund Tyrone, Sydney Carton, Jake Barnes, and Heathcliff — this video examines how dependency, self-destruction, and obsession reshape the self, fracture language, and distort desire. From alcohol and opium to love, guilt, and self-erasure, these characters reveal addiction as a recursive struggle between agency and inevitability.

Rather than approaching addiction clinically or sentimentally, this essay reads it as a literary structure: a pattern of repetition, negation, and failed redemption embedded in narrative form itself.

This video is part of Through the Looking-Glass, a series of long-form video essays at the intersection of literature, philosophy, psychology, and art.

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If you’re interested in literature, existentialism, identity, and how fiction articulates psychological pain with greater precision than diagnosis, this video is for you.


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