To imagine our power coming from outside capitalism, from outside patriarchy, we also need to imagine it coming from outside of what currently seems possible

Whenever you encounter a task that weighs heavy upon you, that feels in some way impossible, talk to your bones and ask them for help.

psilocybin

when your brain is unable to process language or visual form

Either way, you will emerge observant and thoughtful and courageous.I believe in you

It requires you to act with bravery to reach a place of quiet beauty.

When you find quiet beauty, bear witness to it

Missions depend upon all of your training efforts, and hopefully bring you one step closer to completing your wings. Missions are terrifying and powerful.

Eventually, the spell always works

You will quickly realize that most ingredients do not want to do harm

It’s important that your magic never be contingent on the will and whim of another.

be still, kiss your own wrists, else

Once you’ve succeeded at Secret Beauty, you are ready to try new spells

If the game feels weird or uncomfortable, first be still. Think about that feeling; hold on to it. Perhaps the feeling will pass over and through you and you can continue

Try licking your lips as a teenage girl might. Try licking your lips as a witch might

That something is a fiction doesn’t make it any less real.

indicatesthepresenceofanabsence(theFreudianlogicofthefetish)

hus,Freudarguesthatthereisaneedforcivilizationandsocialordertorepresstheseinstincts

Thisiswhytheego,one’sconscioussenseofself—whatyoupresumetobeself-evident and noncontradictory—is, in fact, a fiction

language

tisofcourseonlyassomethingconsciousthatweknowit,afterithasundergonetransformationortranslationintosomething consciou

metapsychology

histhesisthatdreamsmustpossessanunderlyinglogicdiscerniblethroughamethodofpsychoanalyticinterpretation,remainsacenterpieceofWesternculturaldiscourse.

hysteria

proleptic

“Symbolsinfactenvelopthelifeofmanwithanetworksototalthattheyjointogetherthosewhoaregoingtoengenderhim‘bybone and flesh’ before he comes into the world”

birthintolanguageisbirthintosubjectivity

eNon-du-Père(“theNooftheFather”),thussignifyingGodlike authority and prohibition

the“unconsciousisstructuredlikealanguage.”

attendedbymanyinfluentialintellectuals

HisrelationshipwithmainstreampsychoanalysisinEuropewastense,andheresignedfromtheSociétépsychoanalytiquedeParisin1953—thesameyearhegavehisfamouslecture“TheFunctionandtheFieldofSpeechandLanguage”attheInternationalPsychoanalyticAssociationinRome(alsoreferredtoas“TheRomeDiscourse”).

may either see through such relations or reread intended ones in subversive ways.

But it does nor suggest, as do many movies in the Tecent “rape revenge” genre, that women who fight back against such abuse will achieve psychological satisfaction or be backed by a powerful judicial system.°

hermeneutic

Despite all this, there has been some feminist work on horror, and I believe there is room for more. In the first part of this paper I shall survey and criticize currently dominant psychodynamic feminist approaches to horror. In the second part, I propose an alternative framework for constructing feminist interpretations of horror films by critically interrogating their gender ideologies. My proposal focuses less on the Psy: chology of viewers than on the nature of films as artifacts with particular structures and functions. In the third part I illustrate my recommended framework by sketching readings of Jurassic Park (Spielberg 1993), The Fly (Cronenberg 1986), and Repul- sion (Polanski 1965).