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The Heroic Self-Myth Hypothesis: A Neuro-Phenomenological Framework for Pathological Self-Narrativization in the Modernist Epoch

2025-11-25

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This article proposes the "Heroic Self-Myth Hypothesis," a transdisciplinary framework explaining a specific pathology of modern identity construction. Through a detailed analysis of Dostoevsky’s Smerdyakov (The Brothers Karamazov) as a conceptual prototype for Joyce’s characters in Ulysses, the article argues that a pervasive psychological mechanism involves transforming banality into pseudo-heroism to compensate...

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Literature Corpus work: 6e7e48e6-f5ae-5c15-b06e-0c4be8f517bc
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202511.1774.v1

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