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Tribulations of Childhood Trauma on the “Child-Hero”  \nChrisovolandou Gronowski  \nAbstract  \nThis essay seeks to add to the psychoanalytic literature of film and TV series by analyzing a character of an extremely popular online series, Stranger Things. Eleven, a main character who possesses impressive psychic and telekinetic abilities, is the main subject of analysis. Eleven is examined as a child hero of the series who has a potential diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), has significant psychosocial developmental delays that she continues to overcome as the series develops, and is an emblem for the cultural mythology of the 1980s.  \nPsychoanalytic Examination of Stranger Things’ Eleven: Trials and Tribulations of Childhood Trauma on the“Child-Hero”  \nAn explosively popular Netflix series since its initial release in 2016,“Stranger Things” has taken the world by storm through a nostalgia-evoking story revolving around the strange disappearance of Will Byers, a child in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana (Stranger Things, 2016) . A homage to the 1980s horror genre, the story tackles themes of government conspiracies, the supernatural evils that lurk just outside our own realities, as well as the amazing powers lurking in our subconscious minds. Despite its immense popularity and subtly nuanced story, little has been done to examine the series beyond the scope of being an engrossing narrative. With the expansive universe created by the Duffer brothers, it seems intimidating at first to pinpoint topics in Stranger Things to look at under the psychoanalytic microscope. However, substantial psychoanalysis can occur simply through the inspection of some of the characters in this universe. One character in particular,“Eleven,” is especially interesting in regards to looking at Stranger Things beyond the realm of fandom.  \nStranger Things’ narrative begins with the disappearance of Will Byers, a 12-year-old boy who goes missing after a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his fellow friends, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas. The group teams up to search for Will, and with the help of Will’s mother, Joyce, and the chief of the police department, Hopper, they uncover the secret operations of a government laboratory that lead to the eventual recovery of Will. The laboratory reveals that they have opened a gate to another dimension, which looks almost identical to reality but has evil lurking within it. The children describe this evil in terms of monsters from their  \ngame: The Demogorgon, a violent creature that feastson other animals that it had lured into its reality, and the Mind Flayer, a larger demonic entity that acts as a virus to infect Will in season two. The children work together to close this gate and battle these supernatural evils, but only truly succeed through the help of one specific character: a young girl named Eleven.  \nEleven, taking her namesake from the tattoo on her left forearm, was the subject of intense psychological experiments throughout her lifetime, beginning from birth. She was a product of a classified, conspiratorial US government project in which children were used to test their psychic abilities in hopes to create supernatural weaponry for future use. In defiance of her heinous past, Eleven persevered and developed into a child that became the hero of the series - but not without her psychological trauma following close behind. This paper seeks to examine Eleven’s place within the hero’s cycle of the narrative, her behaviors in regard to her past trauma, how her development was affected by this history of complex trauma, as well as her essential role to understand the “Stranger Things”’ cultural mythology of the time period that it is set to-the 1980s.  \nTo fully understand Eleven’s place as the hero, one must be able to imagine her simultaneously as the child and hero archetypes","cbCaijQcrW2ov2w0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijQcrW2ov2w0","pdf",153982,"English","# Abstract\n# Eleven as a Psychoanalytic Subject\n## Childhood Trauma and PTSD Potential\n## Psychosocial Developmental Delays\n# Eleven in the Hero Archetype\n## Child Archetype and Innocence\n## Psychic Powers and Experimental Origins\n# Hero’s Journey Framework","[{\"question\":\"What character does the essay primarily analyze in Stranger Things?\",\"answer\":\"The essay primarily analyzes Eleven, a main character with psychic and telekinetic abilities, as a central subject for psychoanalytic interpretation.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay interpret Eleven’s psychological condition and development?\",\"answer\":\"Eleven is examined as a child hero with a potential PTSD diagnosis and significant psychosocial developmental delays that she continues to overcome as the series progresses.\"},{\"question\":\"What theoretical framework does the essay use to explain Eleven’s role as a hero?\",\"answer\":\"The essay frames Eleven through archetypal analysis (Jung’s child motif) and the hero’s journey structure outlined by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces.\"}]","Psychoanalytic Examination of Stranger Things’ Eleven - Trials and Tribulations of Childhood Trauma on the “Child-Hero” | PDF",1791237054]