Monstrum (Jun 2019)
Le Féminin et le diable: Possessions et exorcismes comme manifestation de la répression sexuelle feminine
Abstract
Addresses the motif of the possessed woman in the demonic possession subgenre as a manifestation of female sexuality repressed under the constraints imposed by the patriarchal order. Combining a psychoanalytic theoretical framework, from Robin Wood's notion of the return of the repressed, with Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection, as well as other feminist horror theorists, the essay explores how the spectacle of exorcism demonizes female sexuality. [The text of this essay is in French.]
