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Psychological Horror Aesthetics within the Visual Sublimity of Cinema and Video Games: A Contemplation on Human Emotions

Author(s) Shreya Tyagi
Country India
Abstract The research paper contemplates on the architecture of grotesque visual imagery and psychological horror aesthetics in contemporary popular culture through the study of visual narrative discourses. The research framework examines how corporeal horror, eco gothic distortions, visual sublimity, voices, memory, human emotional archetypes and visual symbols in James Wan’s The Conjuring and the psychological horror survival game Silent Hill f articulate the idea of unconscious human untamed emotions. The paper argues how untamed emotions like uncontrollable rage, ambition, repression and emotional excess lead to female monstrosity, tragedy and metamorphosis into villainy through Vladimir Propp’s theoretical framework. With the help of Jacques Marie Émile Lacan’s psychoanalytical concept of the “Three Orders” and Alfred Jarry’s “science of imaginary solutions,” namely Pataphysics, the research focuses on psychic fragmentation and absurdity underlying human emotional subjectivity both internally and externally. While Lacanian concepts like jouissance, méconnaissance and objet petit a focus on psychic division, Pataphysics with its paradoxes, ambiguity and contradictions foregrounds the absurd situations generated through external actions. Bathsheba Sherman’s character highlights maternal monstrosity, whereas Hinako Shimizu symbolises uncontrollable rage shaped by patriarchal domination. Through cinema and video games, the paper foregrounds visual aesthetic experience alongside emotional instability through archetypal iconography.
Keywords Keywords: Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Pataphysics, Visual Horror Aesthetics, Psychic Fragmentation, Female Monstrosity
Field Arts > Movies / Music / TV
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-05-11
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