This episode has been hard to write about. I almost wasn’t going to, but then I was listening to Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman. It has a section about trauma and abusive relationships. Specifically how society places all the fault on the (typically female) victim, and none of the fault on the abuser. So I decided that I needed to cover the episode Spellbound.
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Today we continue the trauma metaphor breakdown series about Raven from Teen Titans with an episode from the second season of the show. That episode is called Fear Itself, and was the 5th episode in that season.
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Today, we’re kicking off the Teen Titans discussions about trauma metaphors starting with the episode Nevermore. This episode is from the first season, and is the 6th episode of the show.
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One thing I want to spend more time on this year is healing my trauma. I want to take some time (over the next few weeks) to talk about that today using the character Raven from the 2003-2006 Cartoon Network series Teen Titans. Because there are some parts of the show where she serves as a brilliant metaphor for my trauma and some of the things I struggle with because of it. I want to focus on those parts by breaking down a few select episodes.
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