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…