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- Title
Dracula as Metaphor for Human Evil.
- Authors
Herbert, Steven C.
- Abstract
The monsters we create in print and film are often projections arising from our collective unconscious. Mummies, werewolves, vampires and such are archetypal forces, which, although frightening, help us to look at our own shadow in a less threatening way. They aid us in examining those unintegrated aspects of ourselves, which seek to be brought back into balance. For that is just what evil is; good out of balance. If the personal imbalance is left too long ignored, those archetypes tend to embody themselves collectively in monsters of historic import: Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, Nicolae Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein. Of the plethora of fictional monsters, it is Dracula who most concisely presents to us a metaphor of human evil distilled to its most insidiously perfect form.
- Subjects
GOOD &; evil in motion pictures; MUMMIES; VAMPIRES; GOOD &; evil; ARCHETYPE (Psychology); SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
- Publication
Journal of Religion & Psychical Research, 2004, Vol 27, Issue 2, p62
- ISSN
0731-2148
- Publication type
Article