Psychosis, Myth, and the Labyrinth

The Prompt

Place Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice in its dual lineage — the clinical representation of psychosis in interactive media, and the mythological structure of the hero's descent into the underworld. Cite at least three sources: one on the game's consultation with mental health professionals (the Wellcome Trust/OKRE project, Paul Fletcher, or Ninja Theory's development diary), one on Norse mythology (the Prose Edda, the Pictish archaeological record, or a scholarly study of Helheim), and one on the phenomenology or representation of psychosis. Explain how the game holds the clinical and the mythological in tension, and what that tension achieves.

Completion Criteria

Three citations (one clinical consultation, one mythological, one phenomenological) and a short essay of three or four paragraphs on the game's dual lineage.

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