[CITATION][C] Horror and the monstrous-feminine: An imaginary abjection
B Creed - Screen, 1986 - academic.oup.com
ALL HUMAN SOCIETIES have a conception of the monstrousfeminine, of what it is about
woman that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject.'Probably no male human being is spared
the terrifying shock of threatened castration at the sight of the female genitals,'Freud wrote in
his paper,'Fetishism'in 1927.'Joseph Campbell, in his book, Primitive Mythology, noted
that:... there is a motif occurring in certain primitive mythologies, as well as in modern
surrealist painting and neurotic dream, which is known to folklore as' the toothed vagina'-the …
woman that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject.'Probably no male human being is spared
the terrifying shock of threatened castration at the sight of the female genitals,'Freud wrote in
his paper,'Fetishism'in 1927.'Joseph Campbell, in his book, Primitive Mythology, noted
that:... there is a motif occurring in certain primitive mythologies, as well as in modern
surrealist painting and neurotic dream, which is known to folklore as' the toothed vagina'-the …
2 Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection
B Creed - The Dread of Difference, 2nd ed. Gender and the …, 2015 - degruyter.com
All human societies have a conception of the monstrousfeminine, of what it is about woman
that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject.“Probably no male human being is spared the
terrifying shock of threatened castration at the sight of the female genitals,” Freud wrote in
his paper “Fetishism” in 1927. 1 Joseph Campbell, in his book Primitive Mythology, noted
that “there is a motif occurring in certain primitive mythologies, as well as in modern
surrealist painting and neurotic dream, which is known to folklore as 'the toothed vagina' …
that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject.“Probably no male human being is spared the
terrifying shock of threatened castration at the sight of the female genitals,” Freud wrote in
his paper “Fetishism” in 1927. 1 Joseph Campbell, in his book Primitive Mythology, noted
that “there is a motif occurring in certain primitive mythologies, as well as in modern
surrealist painting and neurotic dream, which is known to folklore as 'the toothed vagina' …