Rediscovering the Best Silent Hill | Psychéludique #10

This video is about Silent Hill 2. It is ABSOLUTELY NOT suitable for a sensitive audience.
Content Warning: Graphic Violence, Physical Violence, Se_xual Violence, Su_icide.
⚠️ Prevention Warning ⚠️
If you are in distress and/or have sui_cidal thoughts, or if you want to help someone in need, you can contact the national suicide prevention number, 3114.
On the website 3114.fr/, you will find resources to better understand the su_icidal crisis and tips to overcome it.
For our Quebecois viewers, there is the Government of Quebec’s website offering resources on how to recognize signs of distress and prevent su_icide.
www.quebec.ca/...
Thanks to Hauntya, @kipp0_JVet, and Scriltarl for their proofreading. Their blog and KZbin:
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🕹️ The Best Version to Play Silent Hill 2 Today:
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📚 Main Sources:
Andrei Nae's book, where he dedicates a chapter to Silent Hill 2 and this interpretation of masculinity in crisis
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The Silent Hill Fandom Wiki
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The Ambivalent Sexism Theory by Susan Fiske and Peter Glick
Glick, P., & Fiske, S. T. (1996). The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(3), 491-512.
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A corpus analysis of video game characters using the ambivalent sexism theory
Tompkins, J. E., Lynch, T., Van Driel, I. I., & Fritz, N. (2020). Kawaii killers and femme fatales: A textual analysis of female characters signifying benevolent and hostile sexism in video games. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 64(2), 236-254.
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Our videos on empathy, guilt, and violence
• Se sentir COUPABLE dan...
• Le plus BEAU et VI0LEN...
What Are Reasons for the Large Gender Differences in the Lethality of Su_icidal Acts? An Epidemiological Analysis in Four European Countries
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📖 Secondary Sources:
Donald Mosher and Mark Sirkin’s article on hypermasculinity (1984)
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The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism. Psychoanalysis (1993) by Barbara Creed
Abjection is a psychoanalytic concept by Julia Kristeva in her book Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980)
A popular science article by Elisa Vial on the monstrous feminine in video games
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Our video on disgust as a horror device
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The analysis on avatar identification and guilt is an extrapolation of theories and data from this article:
Allen, J. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2021). Does avatar identification make unjustified video game violence more morally consequential? Media Psychology, 24(2), 236-258.
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The link between the "hanged man" puzzle and themes of incarceration and guilt was reminded to us by this video from @Horreur404
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On Moral Injuries
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P.S.: In the English-speaking sphere, a similar angle was tackled by @MertKayKay in his video The Male Loneliness Epidemic & Silent Hill 2. His video didn’t inspire ours, but we encourage you to watch it.
• The Male Loneliness Ep...