Psychology and magical realism Four works cited Magical realism provides the reader with a unique perspective on the world: we look at it with new eyes. The reader must go beyond reality to understand magical realism. Magical realism can be related to some academic fields such as psychology because of the mental state one must use to truly know what is happening. Magical realism can be characterized in many ways. It mostly depends on one's opinion, but for me by reading some selections about it, you can basically get the same point of view. “Meticulous craftsmen, one finds them all in the same concern for style and also in the same transformation of the ordinary and the everyday into the fantastic and unreal” (Flores 114). The "fantastic and unreal" are characteristics that usually represent what magical realism is. Many magical realists use it in their selections to give readers a brief idea of ​​magical realism. It's not just the everyday word or the meaning of life. It is a vision of what life has to give to those who are willing to delve deeper into the matter. In psychology, Victor Frankl discusses something called the "will to meaning." Frankl says that in a life the meaning is the love to be attached to one's children; in another life, a talent to be used; in a third, perhaps just lingering memories worth preserving. In his studies, he argued that people survive to weave those thin threads of a broken life into a solid pattern of meaning and responsibility. Frankl proposes three different lives in his theory. Either a person could experience one of the three or they could experience all three at the same time. People just don't realize the magic. If one cannot find one's "will for meaning" in life, Frankl says that the sufferer cannot find meaning and a sense of responsibility in his existence. Later, Frankl poses an answer to this question by saying, "A human being suddenly realizes that he has nothing to lose except his ridiculously bare life." Frankl defines this idea as a mixed flow of emotion and apathy that is simply astonishing. Furthermore, Frankl gave good meaning to his theory by quoting Nietzsche: “He who has why to live can bear almost any how.” That quote was a truly moving statement for me. In the story Like Water for Chocolate, a young woman named Tita was haunted by her mother when she died. Love for a man made her mother haunt her because of Tita's disobedience to her mother after her death. In relation to Frankl's ideas about this story, Tita had a reason to live just as Frankl lived to write down what he had learned. His entire family died in concentration camps without any meaning to life. At first, Tita thought she had no reason to live until she met the love of her life. As Nietzsche said: "He who has a why to live can endure almost any how." Magical realism relates to some academic fields such as psychology because of the state of mind one must use to truly know what is happening. In Frankl's will to meaning, as in magical realism, one must have an awareness of what is happening and a "why and how" attitude towards it. Both are based on the "real and unreal" where a person looks at things with other minds, not just their own natural state (psychologically) - (magically). I think magical realism has become more popular in the last sixty years because it has proven to relate to things used in our academic fields today. I think if it wasn't used it wouldn't be as fun, 1995: 15-31.