Re: OT - I need help finding some articles about Willow

["mike" <wizathogwarts@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dutch,

I tried different combinations of search criteria focusing on grief, 
addiction and then obsessive behavior/behaviour(Doctors tend to use 
the older spelling).
I tried obsessive behavior because it's often interchangeable with 
addiction.
With this particular combination on vivisimo (grief manifested in 
obsessive behaviour) I found one interesting article.  It's short 
but appears to be supportive of your theory.

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/npd/88487

The article discusses pathological narcissism as the result of 
trauma and a light went off in my head.  Many of Willow's activites 
after the death of buffy do appear as a pathological narcissism, 
specifically her not listening to Tara and not comprehending the the 
results of her misuse of magic.  She was oblivious to anyone's 
opinion but her own.  And her need to bring Buffy back was clearly 
obsessive.  Once Buffy was back, she still never dealt with her 
original grief and the obsessive behavior continued.

I'm intrigued by this concept myself and actually gives me some 
story ideas that I would pursue if I wasn't already trying to write 
4 fics at the same time.

If I come across anything else that appears supportive I'll forward 
the link.

Hope this helps
-mike
--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "dutchpizza" 
<dutchpizza@y...> wrote:
> Hiya
>
> I need some help finding articles, like news articles or journal 
type 
> artcles and/or essays about Willow's downward spiral into dark 
magic 
> because of her grief. I don't need stuff about the lesbian cliche 
or 
> anything written by random people with their own sites, because 
that 
> won't work in my paper. I'm doing a paper for my college English 
> class and the topic is going to argue that Willow's grief was the 
> prime factor in her being ensconsed in the magic, that it's not 
> really herself because her rationale is gone. So, (while I 
seriously 
> seriously hope no out of hand debate comes out of this somehow) I 
> would be soooo greatful for anything you can help me with.
>
> Dutch



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