First Advisor
Joel Bettridge
Date of Award
Fall 12-17-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Creative Writing and University Honors
Department
English
Language
English
Abstract
Notes on a Descent Into Isolated Unconsciousness, or: The (Post-)Traumatic Resubstantiation of the Ego is a rip-roaring psychological novel, epistolary self-help book and bracingly diuretic Künstlerroman at once, an all-in-one if there ever was one. Conceived on a typewriter and Imagineeringly executed in Google Docs, Notes is a genre-spanning, future Pulitzer Prize-winning encyclopedic art piece set in the only square foot of real estate with any real value: the mind. Fear and loathing never felt so good.
Recommended Citation
Gatlin, Nick, "Notes on a Descent into Isolated Unconsciousness, or: The (Post-)Traumatic Resubstantiation of the Ego" (2025). University Honors Theses. Paper 1763.