#david b morris

[gothicseverance]

What lies outside of consciousness also, as Lacan would tell us, lies outside of speech.

—Gothic Sublimity

[gothicseverance]

For Freud, (...) uncanny images inspire the same mixture of attraction and revulsion which is the fundamental law of Gothic emotion.

—Gothic Sublimity

[gothicseverance]

Death in the Gothic novel is not conceived in linear relation to life, as the terminus of a long or short journey. It interrupts the hero on his wedding day; it intrudes upon the timeless chapels of religion; it mixes corpses with marriage beds.

—Gothic Sublimity

[gothicseverance]

Gothic sublimity explores a terror of the unspeakable, of the inconceivable, of the unnameable.

—Gothic Sublimity

[gothicseverance]

Life in Gothic fiction never frees itself from the presence or threat of death. The sublime is always waiting beyond the next turn of the staircase.

—Gothic Sublimity

[gothicseverance]

In the Gothic novel, love and terror prove inextricable.

—Gothic Sublimity

[gothicseverance]

Even in moments of grotesque or comic exaggeration, when nervous laughter seems closer than terror, the Gothic novel remains an edgy, uncomfortable, disquieting text.

—Gothic Sublimity

[gothicseverance]

Excessive feeling is the law for Gothic character.

—Gothic Sublimity