Pop Psych: Melisandre’s Great Awakening on ‘Game of Thrones’
/Last week, I wrote about The Red Lady’s journey into the long dark night of the soul on the first episode of the new season of Game of Thrones. To recap briefly, shit was looking a touch grim for her. She was receiving all the signs of being completely abandoned by everything she believed in – Stannis and his armies were dead, and all the promises her faith had made to her were turning out to be false. Also, she turned out to be exceptionally old. There’s a therapeutic term for this,groundlessness, and it basically means that everything you thought you could rely on was suddenly shown to be transient and useless. People often find themselves feeling groundless after a major loss – the death of a loved one, getting fired from a job, not being allowed into the Magic Castle in LA, that kind of thing
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