As everyone knows, Halloween celebrates the dead and all the disguises inherent in this ritual revolve around funerary mythology, even Satanic. Like good big rebels, kids love this holiday and rejoice at the idea of dressing up as witches, vampires, monsters, zombies, and other supernatural or bloodthirsty creatures. In fact, they even insist that you decorate the house with hollowed out pumpkins adorned with candles, lanterns, fake cobwebs, skulls and hanging skeletons. But why do our loved ones love this holiday where we celebrate monsters and the supernatural so much?
In his book Psychoanalysis of fairy talesthe American pedagogue and psychologist Bruno Bettelheim gives the beginning of an answer by expressing the ambivalence of the voluptuous feeling of fear: “A particular fairy tale can in fact make the child anxious, but as he becomes familiar with fairy tales, the scary aspects tend to disappear, while the reassuring traits acquire importance. The initial sorrow of anxiety then becomes the great pleasure of the anguish faced. successfully. and mastered.
