Authorial Development from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG): Psychoanalytic Reading of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five and Timequake.

This article intends to explore the rational association connecting Kurt Vonnegut's encounter with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Post-traumatic Growth's impact on his narrative. Previous literature lean on linking the authors' spring of creativity to PTSD, it is a legitimate intent, for this study, to look at things differently attempting to verify the potential facet(s) of transformation. The centre focus of this paper is analyzing Vonnegut's healing process to explore PTG's affirmative connotations and how much serenity it can provide on the long term. In other words, we investigate if trauma narratives, trauma fiction in Slaughterhouse-five and Timequake, are vivid transcripts of the progressive healing process as a proof of PTG. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]