Privilege produces gothic anxieties by sealing people off from visibility

Evidence

Gothics are indeed ultimately a class fantasy (or nightmare) in which the dialectic of privilege and shelter is exercised: your privileges seal you off from other people, but by the same token they constitute a protective wall through which you cannot see, and behind which therefore all kinds of envious forces may be imagined in the process of assembling, plotting, preparing to give assault; it is, if you like, the showercurtain syndrome (alluding to Hitchcock Psycho). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 632

Categorization

• XREF: The showercurtain syndrome in Psycho connects to the reader’s interest in class defenses and enclosed subject positions from previous chapters on the social cartography. — connects to: Privileged young people lack the guardedness that keeps them alive
• DEFINE: Strongly defines the gothic as a class-structured fantasy of privilege and shelter, giving a mechanism rather than a genre label.