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
- Psychoanalysis converts each behavior’s hidden revelation into conceptual form
#expands(0.80) - Psychoanalysis normalizes patients into a sick society rather than curing it
#complicates(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 674