Showing young children horror films can cause lasting trauma they later reframe into forgiveness

Evidence

Like the time when I took her with me to see the horror classic Carrie. She had just turned six and was so terrified that she kept hiding under her seat until I forced her to get off the sticky theatre floor of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. To this day she blames me for her inability to enjoy a good scary movie. I hadn’t realized how badly I traumatized her until she brought it up with me over a lunch we shared with my therapist friend. My friend asked her if she still held resentment about it and she said, “I forgave Mom because going to the movies was the only way she could afford to study her craft of acting.” — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 61

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Childhood emotional tones get reapplied to adult situations — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 436; Resilient children self-generate their own constancy after trauma annihilates prior form — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 251

Broader Connections

• Childhood emotional tones get reapplied to adult situations #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 436
• Resilient children self-generate their own constancy after trauma annihilates prior form #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 251