Psychoanalysis already operates as a horror genre.

Evidence

You might say that it translates psychoanalysis’ family dramas into the stuff of horror, except that it does rather more; it demonstrates what many have long suspected — that psychoanalysis already belongs to the genre of horror. Where else could we place concepts such as the death drive, the uncanny, trauma, the compulsion to repeat? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 514

Categorization

  • XREF: Builds on earlier chapters on the death drive, uncanny, and repetition (ch8-11). — connects to: Psychoanalysis normalizes patients into a sick society rather than curing it — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 674; Psychoanalysis converts each behavior’s hidden revelation into conceptual form

Broader Connections