Synchronicity - Daryl Chaste
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Fractured Identities offers an unflinching look into the complexities of desire, identity, and survival within a Hungarian Jewish family during the crucible of the Second World War. Brace yourself for a harrowing psychosexual journey that confronts the limits of the human psyche and morality.At the story's center is an uncle - a Jungian psychiatrist - whose career is stifled under the oppressive Nazi regime ... Full description
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Fractured Identities offers an unflinching look into the complexities of desire, identity, and survival within a Hungarian Jewish family during the crucible of the Second World War. Brace yourself for a harrowing psychosexual journey that confronts the limits of the human psyche and morality.At the story's center is an uncle - a Jungian psychiatrist - whose career is stifled under the oppressive Nazi regime. Bereft of his practice, he grapples with the dissolution of his professional identity. Opposite him is his wife, a once-successful actress and singer. Constrained by her Jewish heritage, she challenges both her own and her husband's sexual boundaries as a form of escape from the confinements of religious and societal norms.Their niece, prodigiously gifted and strikingly beautiful, is raised by her aristocratic, war-hero grandfather. Throughout the war, she faces a relentless assault on her body and mind. Her identity oscillates violently, from a vulnerable Jewish girl to a fierce supporter of Nazi ideology, even as her capacity for scientific innovation and acts of heroism grow. Yet she, too, cannot evade the war's corrosive ethical compromises.
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| Author | Daryl Chaste |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Austin Macauley Publishers LLC |
| Release year | 2024 |
| Cover type | Softcover |
| EAN | 9798889107484 |