{"id":2316,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/what-is-horror-a-psychoanalytic-perspective\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"what-is-horror-a-psychoanalytic-perspective-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/12\/what-is-horror-a-psychoanalytic-perspective-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Horror? A Psychoanalytic Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This project aims to explore the territory of horror fiction,<br \/>\ninvestigating the question of \u2018what is horror?\u2019 through a<br \/>\npsychoanalytic perspective. This investigation is focused on H.P.<br \/>\nLovecraft\u2019s novella At the Mountains of Madness, published in 1936;<br \/>\nthis constitutes the object of the project. The psychoanalytic thought<br \/>\nthat will be drawn upon is, primarily, that of Sigmund Freud and<br \/>\nJacques Lacan, with Slavoj \u017di\u017eek used as secondary theorist<br \/>\nthroughout. The philosophical concepts employed in this project are<br \/>\nFreud\u2019s notion of the unheimlich and Lacan\u2019s order of the Real,<br \/>\nthough the latter is streamlined through the \u017di\u017eekian reading of the<br \/>\nReal as horrifying.<br \/>\nAn application of these psychoanalytic frameworks to the material<br \/>\nprovided by Lovecraft\u2019s novella will offer two contrasting accounts<br \/>\nconcerning what constitutes the notion of horror. The Freudian<br \/>\napproach rationalises the image of horror by tracing it back to certain<br \/>\nrepressed content, whilst the \u017di\u017eekian-Lacanian approach<br \/>\nunderstands the phenomena of horror as an interruption of the Real<br \/>\ninto our social reality. This project argues for the salience of the latter,<br \/>\non account of the reductive tendency of the Freudian framework that,<br \/>\nultimately, fails to capture the philosophical richness of the material<br \/>\nwith which it is dealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabel Mitcham, 2021, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,22,123],"tags":[32,361,98],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-311","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-freud","tag-horror","tag-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}