Sublime

The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness.

Well-meaning friends never failed to warn me, if a white guy was attracted to me, that he probably had an Asian fetish. The result: I distrusted my desirousness. My sexuality was a pathology. If anyone non-Asian liked me, there was something wrong with him.

Lisbeth is fascinating because she is both the perceived “problem” and the solution. The same is true of Rachel in The Girl on the Train and Amy in Gone Girl. All three are part of more complex and gripping narratives than the standard and stereotypical good vs. evil plot. These girls are somehow all of it—the good, the bad, the problem, and the