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Psychoanalytic Investigation of Resident Evil and Silent Hill
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Since Freud, psychoanalytic investigations have become one of filters through which the act of creation is studied; but unlike philosophy, which is intrinsically more aggressive, psychoanalysis does not attempt to hoard the objects that it points out, rather it approaches them at a distance, under the cover of the unconscious, and maintains that distance without which it could not exist.
Granted, survival horror is filled with symbols, so it is no suprise that psychoanalysis would find an interest in the unconscious layers underlying survival horror games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. But what about Ties that bind? While I find this study of Resident Evil and Silent Hill fascinating, Torque, with his multi-leveled consciousness and fragmented psyche, and the doppelgangerish Blackmore, could merit a study of its own.
Quote: "In Resident Evil, we defend symbolic order by killing monstrous zombies. Part of these games' terror stems from approaching that which challenges our own symbolic economies-the Real, the abject vilified maternal that threatens the paternal psychological structures upon which subjectivity is founded. [...] Silent Hill significance stems from its avant-garde status: it anticipates our familiarity with these conventions and works to subvert them, problematizing our desire for stability and coherence. These subversions work by collapsing the distances between player, avatar, and game unsettling our expectation to retain a clinical distance between the twisted world of our avatars and the sacred normality of our own real world."
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