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O'Gwin, Chase K.

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The Horizons of Horror: An Empirical Psychoanalytic Investigation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Horizons of Horror: An Empirical Psychoanalytic Investigation./
Author:	O'Gwin, Chase K.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	239 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01B(E).
Subject:	Personality psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10603701
ISBN:	9780355158489

The Horizons of Horror: An Empirical Psychoanalytic Investigation.
O'Gwin, Chase K.

The Horizons of Horror: An Empirical Psychoanalytic Investigation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 239 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of West Georgia, 2017.

In this dissertation, I examine the impact of the horror experience on the subjective structure of those who engage with horror as art, i.e. the horror-fan subculture. Current literature in social and personality psychology argue that the attraction to this genre is due to ideas such as sensation-seeking personality types, a socially acceptable place to identify as an aggressor, or a place to act out traditional gender roles. Such literature is shown to be unrepresentative of the lived experience, and is often alienating, and at times, pathologizing in regards to members of this subculture. This study's approach begins by taking the dominant narratives surrounding horror in social psychology and critiquing those ideas using interdisciplinary concepts from philosophy and cultural studies. Utilizing the ideas and personality theories of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and others, this work argues for alternative theories that can be utilized to explore and explain the horror experience. Four themes are highlighted as being particularly salient: Imagery, Existential Anxiety, Identification, and Existential Growth & Transcendence.

ISBN: 9780355158489Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144789
Personality psychology.

The Horizons of Horror: An Empirical Psychoanalytic Investigation.
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