archangelleramielle [none/use name]

do whatever

according to Sapolsky, stuff like this is plausibly the result of a obsessive compulsive personality disorder among shamans

It is just a wank. That is all literature analysis is. Its value is that people enjoy arguing about the fun parts of a story.

For some reason it has turned into something like numerology but with academic clout. People do free association between symbols in their favorite literature, and they think they are both doing critical thinking and learning something about the world. But it will never be a legitimate academic subject, because it has no way of knowing.

it’s not real, it’s just random shit

what difference does it make

it doesn’t make any difference to the story or to real life

lol the meme was right

Scientism, broadly. Anything with a way of knowing. That way the academic subject can advance human knowledge.