Athens Journal of Psychology
The Mind as a Creator: Tagore, Trauma, and the Truth in Healing
Contemporary psychology defines trauma as a lasting emotional or cognitive response to distressing events, yet it rarely acknowledges how trauma transforms the self’s fundamental relationship with reality. Drawing on Rabindranath Tagore’s essay The World of Personality, this paper applies his relational model of perception to recast trauma not only as a psychological wound, but as a disruption of the ontological and aesthetic exchange between inner awareness and outer existence. With Tagore’s philosophy and the bro …