Showing posts with label Sigmund Freud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sigmund Freud. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Describing Images of Horror as a Means of Enriching Narrative Possibilities

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   Describing horror movie images can suggest directions in which to take a story. A poster for Sweet Sixt...
Saturday, July 7, 2018

"Oculus": A Psychological Horror Movie with Philosophical Implications

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman I admit it: I'm a movie poster fan, especially if it's designed to promote a chiller or...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Sex and Horror, Part 9

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Having provided both Freudian and Christian definitions and examples of erotic horror, I would now, in...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Sex and Horror, Part 5

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman For Sigmund Freud and his followers, a witch is basically a hysterical woman. Of course, for Freu...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Horror Fiction: The Pleasure of Pain, or Painful Pleasures

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Just as some philosophers see morality as emerging from a hedonistic pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain, some psychologists regard s...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Modern Monsters

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman “We have seen the enemy, and he is us.” -- Pogo Before Christianity, paganism supplied humanity’s monsters...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Value of Literature

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Fiction begins with empathy, as a writer imagines what it would be like to be another individual. He or sh...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

The Horror of the Double

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do./ Now if I do that I would n...
Friday, December 5, 2008

Music Hath Alarms To Evoke The Savage Beast

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman As we saw, in an earlier post, the lyrics to The Doors’ songs can be suggestive of horror stories. We imag...