Categorii: Tot - emotions - horror - fiction - brain

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Human Experience in text

Fear is a multifaceted experience involving both physiological and psychological elements. The amygdala in the brain plays a key role in processing fear, triggering responses such as the startle reflex.

Human Experience in text

Human Experience in text

Horror Fiction

Sub-Genres of Horror
The Fantastic

The Blair Witch Project

also the story I read, The Lottery

Psychological horror

Silence of the Lambs

movie I watched

Moral allegory

The Exorcist

the monster within

key elements
atmosphere
in any genre of fiction
supernatural elements

Stephen King on fear

Welsh sin-eater
imaginary horrors
snuggle theory
Simulated risk
socially constructed gender roles
fear makes us blind
not knowing
phobias

The Physiology of fear

Clark McCauley
mastrey testing
James Twitchell
physical sensation

when you think you're in danger

Amygdala
when something suddenly happens onscreen (get frightened)

startle reflex can be activated by neural pathways in the brain

Sigmund Freud

horror
Immaterial cause
a fascinated dread
Catharsis
release of strong emotion

Aristotle, a Greek writer

components of brain
superego

our conscious, our sense of guilt, and knowledge of right and wrong

parents and society

ego

our personality

environment

id

ranging emotions, drives, and feelings

dreams and nightmares

the Father of psychoanalysis.