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Originally Posted by Sculpt
Thanks, Shady, I had never thought about it that way -- that the promiscuous women are killed off because they are women the male viewer cannot wholly own, women who have squandered their purity that is precious to a male both in a procreative-evolutionary and psyche-intimate-holy sense. It, the male (even human) subconscious or the Freud "ID" (from ID, Ego, Super-ego), is sweeping through the film doing what it does, which I would think would be quite evocative.
Shady, did you conceive of this yourself? If not, where did you hear it from? Did one of the slasher films speak of it, like Victor Miller?
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When you view stories as maps of the subconscious, it seems like a a very plain analysis to me, and I am sure I am not the first to think of slasher movies in those terms. From a psychoanalytic perspective, slasher movies are probably an easy interpretation. And, in a broader view, much of horror stems from 'monsters of the Id'. Graphic murders in these scenarios are usually forms of wish-fulfillment; the greater offense to the ego corresponds to a more gruesome death. These themes are by no means confined to horror, they are just more apparent in horror because the anxieties are typically manifest in a more defined, concrete form in horror, ie a monster or murderer.