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When Sisyphus Falls: Creation Through Destruction in the Search for Identity

2025-09-06

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<p>This paper introduces The Sisyphus Complex (TSC), a novel framework for understanding patterns of identity fragility, relational instability, and covert harm propagation. TSC is defined by the compulsive creation of externalized identity scaffolding, strategic role adoption, and triangulated relational matrices that sustain a fragmented sense of self. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, trauma literature, quantum...

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Literature Corpus work: 1b2ad91b-cde4-50d5-998e-c792f1e33955
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/f3xuj_v1

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