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![]() “Only those writers whose analysis of horror draws on recent debates about the nature of sexual difference attempt to come to terms with the nature of monstrosity in relation to gender from the Freudian position that woman horrifies because she is castrated” 5. “As with all other stereotypes of the feminine, from virgin to whore, she is defined in terms of her sexuality” 3. ![]() ![]() Whether this stems from Freud’s assertion that men see women as castrated or the toothed nightmare of vagina dentata, for Creed, it is intimately embodied – “What is the relationship between physical states, bodily wastes (even if metaphoric ones) and the horrific – in particular, the monstrous feminine?” 3. 1993 Creed begins by asserting that previous critical work has focused too much on the woman as victim of the monster, not as the female monster her/itself 1.
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