ABSTRACT
If, as we saw in Part I, many people turned to psychoanalysis in order to deal with the fantastical aspects of the horror genre, but the use of psychoanalysis also had other motivations and effects. On the one hand, as we saw with Wood, it encouraged critics to concentrate on issues of gender and sexuality in their analysis of horror but, on the other, it was also legitimated by a long-running association between horror and these issues, an association that dates back as least as far as the Gothic novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For example, it has been repeatedly claimed that horror involves not only violence against women, but violence that is itself highly sexualized (Jancovich, 1992).
