The Freudian Horror of Sesame Street & Psychoanalytic Dog People
Freudian horror uses psychoanalytic concepts like repression, the uncanny (das Unheimliche), doppelgängers, and taboo desires (the Id) to create psychological dread, focusing on familiar things becoming terrifying as hidden trauma and forbidden impulses resurface, often through doubles, dolls, or distorted family dynamics, making the horror internal and deeply unsettling rather than just external threats. It […]