Avatars, egregores and the writing of the self1
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice October 1, 2023 Simon D. O'Sullivan
Fictions can become real when enough people invest in them, producing a collective entity—an egregore—that speaks back to its creators as if it had an independent voice. This phenomenon reveals other forms of agency operating beneath the fiction of the self. Writing or rewriting the self is a creative and pragmatic task for which resources can be drawn from magickal practice, literary experimentation, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and schizoanalysis.