Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst

This volume finds the proper place of psychoanalytic thought in critical analysis of cinema through a series of essays that debate its legitimacy, utility, and validity as applied to the horror genre. It distinguishes itself from previous work in this area through the self-consciousness with which psychoanalytic concepts are employed and the theorization that coexists with interpretations of particular horror films and subgenres.

Preface: what lies beneath?
Introduction: Psychoanalysis in/and/of the horror film
The Question of Horror-Pleasure
'What's the matter with Melanie?': reflections on the merits of psychoanalytic approaches to modern horror cinema
A fun night out: horror and other pleasures of the cinema
Excerpt from 'Why Horror? The New Pleasures of a Popular Genre' (with a new afterword by the author)
Philosophical problems concerning the concept of pleasure for future psychoanalytical theories of (the horror) film
Theorizing the Uncanny
Explaining the uncanny in The Double Life of VÃ©ronique
Manifestations of the literary double in modern horror cinema
Heimlich maneuvers: on a certain tendency of horror and speculative cinema
'It was a dark and stormy night " ': horror films and the problem of irony
Representing Psychoanalysis
'What does Dr. Judd want?': transformation, transference and divided selves in Cat People
'Ultimate formlessness': cinema, horror, and the limits of meaning
Freud's worst nightmare: dining with Dr Hannibal Lecter
New Directions
Doing things with theory: from Freud's worst nightmares to (disciplinary) dreams of horror's cultural value
The darker side of genius: the (horror) auteur meets Freud's theory
Violence and psychophysiology in horror cinema
Afterword: psychoanalysis and the horror film
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Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare

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