{"id":10367,"date":"2019-04-10T16:32:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2019-04-26T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:21:26","slug":"will-fans-need-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/04\/10\/will-fans-need-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Will fans need therapy? Lauren Ware explores emotional connection to fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/ware.html\">Dr Lauren Ware<\/a>, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p074dn3r\">BBC Radio Kent<\/a>\u00a0(Lauren appears at 2:70) to discuss viewers\u2019 emotional connection with the <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> television show in light of the upcoming premiere of its final season, and cast member Gwendoline Christie\u2019s recent statement that fans &#8220;will need therapy&#8221; after the finale.<\/p>\n<p>In the programme, Lauren discussed questions about emotional connections with art and with fictional entities; a classic problem in philosophical aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren, who is a fan of <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, commented on how &#8216;extreme genre&#8217; stories (in the realms of science-fiction and fantasy) contain human elements which can be difficult to explore in other mediums, and went to to discuss how shows like <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> provide &#8220;a playful space for us to think about revenge, or anger, or other things that are a little bit uncomfortable&#8221;, which is why the audience gets so attached to the characters within these stories.<\/p>\n<p>Are such outlets good for us? Lauren thinks so.\u00a0&#8220;Sometimes we have emotions within us that we don&#8217;t get to satisfy. These mediums can be a way of getting this emotion out in a controlled, safe, and non-consequential environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Lauren Ware, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, appeared on BBC Radio Kent\u00a0(Lauren appears at 2:70) to discuss viewers\u2019 emotional connection with the Game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/04\/10\/will-fans-need-therapy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135866,124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10403,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions\/10403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}