Galerie Hubert Winter

<p class="caption">Full title:</p> <p>VAMPIRE: "I am Dracula. I bid you welcome. Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make! The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield. I never drink... wine. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.(Lugosi 1931) The discovery by a boy that his genitals are the chief site of his sexual sensations gives rise to the castration complex, which exerts a determining influence on the formation of his sexual character. The boy fears that his penis will be removed as punishment for his forbidden sexual desires. This fear leads to the development of the Oedipus complex, and the resulting anxiety plays a crucial role in the formation of the superego." (Freud 1938)The virginal brides file past his tomb/Strewn with time's dead flowers/ Bereft in deathly bloom/ Alone in a darkened room/ The count (bauhaus 1982) “I want my opera house!” (Kinski 1982) Lucifer’s sin is what thinkers in the Middle Ages called “cupiditas.”*1 For Dante, the sins that spring from that root are the most extreme “sins of the wolf,” the spiritual condition of having an inner black hole so deep within oneself that no amount of power or money can ever fill it. For those suffering the mortal malady called cupiditas, whatever exists outside of one’s self has worth only as it can be exploited by, or taken into one’s self. In Dante’s Hell those guilty of that sin are in the ninth circle, frozen in the Lake of Ice. Having cared for nothing but self in life, they are encased in icy Self for eternity. By making people focus only on oneself in this way, Satan and his followers turn their eyes away from the harmony of love that unites all living creatures.(Zimbardo, 2008)</p>