“Women’s interior lives labor under the two-headed curse of societal and internalized repression. We self-censor our every reaction, debating endlessly with ourselves over which thoughts are permitted and which are forbidden or unclean. Our dreams, or the dreamlike realm of psychosis, are the only spaces in which we can be truly honest with ourselves, our filters and obsessive self-monitoring falling away to reveal the truth of our wants. They’re seldom pretty.
And so, a common thread runs through horror’s visions of female destruction and abandon. Each expresses in some way an unfulfilled desire, an urge to transgress—to violate taboos around what womanhood is and is not.”
The Cursed Interior: Women in Horror
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