What Horror Reveals About Us: A Psychoanalytic Introduction | 3-Session Course with David Vella
Tue, 05 May
|Valletta Design Cluster
Explore why horror fascinates, frightens, and reveals what we fear most—your inner monsters await.”
Time & Location
05 May 2026, 18:00 – 26 May 2026, 20:00
Valletta Design Cluster, 25 Bull Street, Il-Belt Valletta VLT 1570, Malta
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About the event
A 3-Session course on Horror - Tuesdays 5, 19 and 26 May
Why are we drawn to horror? Why do we willingly sit through stories that disturb, unsettle, and frighten us? From haunted houses and monstrous doubles, to possession and supernatural terrors, horror has always held a strange fascination. But what is it about it that both repels and compels us?
This three-session course explores horror not merely as stories of ghosts, occult forces, or serial killers, but as a genre that dares to show what we would rather not see. Horror stages the return of what we repress. It provides clues to the hidden fears, unspoken desires, and anxieties that quietly shape our inner lives.
Drawing on ideas from psychoanalysis, this course examines how horror brings to the surface what everyday life encourages us to deny: fear of death, loss of control, forbidden longing, the fragility of…
Tickets
Members Ticket
This is the price for all 3 sessions of the course.
€12.00
+€0.30 ticket service fee
Non-Members Tickets
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€24.00
+€0.60 ticket service fee
Students Ticket
This includes the price of all 3 sessions. Holders of this ticket must present their student's identity card on the first day of admission.
€15.00
+€0.38 ticket service fee
Senior Citizens Ticket
This ticket includes the price of all 3 sessions. Holders of this ticket must present their KartAnzjan +60 on the admission of the first session.
€15.00
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Admission + 1 Year Membership
This ticket entitles you to a one-year membership ( from date of ticket) whereby you will receive next issue of SHARE by post free of charge and a 50% discount on all future events. A membership for one year is the equivalent of €23.
€28.00
+€0.70 ticket service fee
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