The psychobiographical analysis of the author’s creativity in Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s novels: “I open at the close”

Abstract

One might wonder, what inspired Rowling to create the story of the young wizard. My hypothesis was that her creativity served as a coping mechanism that through sublimation, allowed her to relieve her traumas and handle the pain caused by the loss of her loved ones. Writing a story about an orphaned boy based on herself, who slowly accepts mortality and his parent’s death led Joanne to be capable of mourning and accepting death - by making the novels the forever remaining memory of them.