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==Psychoanalytic views== [[Freud]] likened the experience of horror to that of the [[uncanny]].<ref>S Freud, The โUncannyโ ''Imago'' V 1919 p. 27</ref> In his wake, [[Georges Bataille]] saw horror as akin to [[ecstasy (philosophy)|ecstasy]] in its transcendence of the everyday;<ref>E Roudinesco, ''Jacques Lacan'' (Cambridge 1999) p. 122 and p. 131</ref> as opening a way to [[Limit-experience|go beyond]] rational social consciousness.<ref>W Paulett, ''G S Bataille'' (2015) p. 67 and p. 101</ref> [[Julia Kristeva]] in turn considered horror as evoking experience of the primitive, the infantile, and the demoniacal aspects of unmediated femininity.<ref>J Kristeva, ''Powers of Horror'' (New York 1981) p. 63-5</ref>
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