Barriers to the Self
This article explores Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1967) and Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation (1994) through the effects that depression has on the creation and perception of self in young women. Depression is explored in terms of the barriers it erects around young women’s attempts to conceptualis...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/3048 |