Monstrous Women of the 1970s Blow Up Freud: Undead Mothers, One More Rodeo

I’ve talked a lot on this substack about the horror paradigm of the Undead Mother.

We saw it in Psycho, Umma, The Bacchae, The Oresteia, and many other great works of horror. But I want to return to it again, in light (or darkness) of what I said last week about Freudian psychoanalysis absolutely pillorying mothers.