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=The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Popular Fictions Series) by Barbara Creed =

Creed, B. (1993). //The monstrous-feminine, film, feminism, psychoanalysis//. (pp. 1-3). London, England: Routledge.

(Creed, 1993)


 * __15 Facts : __ **
 * 1) (PAGE 1)
 * ** The horror film is populated by female monsters **, many of ** which ** seem to ** have evolved from images that haunted the dreams, myths and artistic practices of our forebears many centuries ago. **
 * Although a great deal has been written about the horror film, ** very little ** of that ** work has discussed the representation of woman-as-monster. **
 * Few woman monster include:
 * Vampire (The Hunger 1983)
 * Witch (Carrie 1976)
 * Woman as possessed body (The Exorcist, 1973)
 * The castrating mother (Psycho, 1960)
 * Woman as the deadly femme castratrice (I Spit on Your Grave 1978)
 * A man that goes by Freud lined man's fear to his infantile belief that the mother is castrated.
 * ** "Probably no male human being is spared the fright of castration at the sight of a female genital"-Freud. **
 * 1) (PAGE 2)
 * // Vagina dentata //
 * ** Women are terrifying **** because they have teeth in their vaginas **** and that the women must be tamed or the teeth somehow removed or softened--usually by a hero figure--before intercourse can safely take place. **
 * Of the female monsters-the witch is a good example and so is the vampire
 * 1) (PAGE 3)
 * As with all stereotypes of the feminine, ** from virgin to whore, she is defined in terms of her sexuality. **
 * It is argued that the ** woman only terrifies when represented as man's castrated other **
 * Gérard Lenne--Believes that women should be represented only in terms of their 'natural' role in life.