By the time you read this, Halloween will have come and gone. Hopefully, everyone had a great holiday, with plenty of candy, creative costumes, and scares. (The good kind of scares, not ones that involve running out of candy as a gang of miniature hoodlums comes knocking on your door.)
There is something about Halloween that seems to bring out the kid in everyone. Or at least, the childlike thrill of becoming someone, being able to step outside yourself and take on a new persona, act and react in ways that you normally couldn’t. I don’t know what it is exactly; my best guess is that we all, regardless of how much we love our lives, occasionally want to see how the other half lives. If the other half happens to be a vampire who’s ready to drain the blood of innocent maidens or handsome rakes, well, all the better then.
Psychologically, the idea of wish-fulfillment and unconscious desires made into a reality is wonderfully inspiring. Add in the types of costumes chosen (sexy and seductive roles for the women, powerful predators for the men, figures of authority and control for the children) and the implications get even more profound. Everyone can seize whatever is lacking in their own life and become something more. That’s it; the true purpose of Halloween is nothing more than an id-releasing, ego-stroking, Freudian fantasy come to life!
Or maybe it’s all about the candy.
Candy: It's what's for dinner (for the next two weeks...)
Yup, definitely about the candy. Happy Halloween!
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