Eros and Thanatos  

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"Human sexuality is, quite apart from Christian repressions, a highly questionable phenomenon, and belongs, at least potentially, among the extreme rather than the ordinary experiences of humanity. Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself." --Susan Sontag in the The Pornographic Imagination

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"Erotic horror"

Sex and death have gone hand in hand since the earliest times. The erotic horror genre can best be approached through the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Jess Franco. Philosophically, the theme has been explored by Georges Bataille in L'Érotisme.

The most relevant movie in the genre is Peeping Tom.

In art, literature and cinema

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In cinema

Alfred Hitchcock

Cinematic bibliography

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