Kultura (jako źródło cierpień) zombie

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen states that “we live in a time of monsters” and now our once humane culture transforms into the monster culture. Consequently, Mikołaj Marcela’s chapter Zombie Civilization (and Its Discontents) aims at outlining today’s zombie as a central figure of the monster culture and no longer a Haitian slave. Since 1968, when George A. Romero directed his Night of the Living Dead, zombies have been portrayed as an untamed beasts that desire to bite a human body. These awkward and clumsy creatures, which were once human, are now overwhelmed by an urge to con-sume flesh. But according to Simon Clark, who reads Romero’s movies about the living dead using Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, these bites are both aggressive and erotic, which makes zombies seem to represent the return of the in-stincts repressed by culture. It is this repression that leads to a destructive union be-tween Eros and Thanatos against civilization, with its institutions of discipline and punishmen—the union one can experience in Romero’s movies.