The horror dimension of mourning in “His house”: an interpretation

Abstract

This article presents an interpretation of the film His house (2020), directed by Remi Weekes, focusing not only on the narrative but also in the cultural context of forced migration of the main characters, Bol and Rial Majur. In order to interpret this dramatic story of loss and asylum seek, we will work with transcultural psychoanalysis (MORO, 2015, BINKOWSKI; BERRIEL, 2018) to discuss the work of mourning in Dinka. Classified as a horror movie, His house (2020) presents not only the trajectory of Bol and Rial in England and the country’s dynamic of (not) hosting refugees, but also their internal struggles with what seems to have been left behind, but that accompanies them throughout the entire plot. We worked the dimension of horror in mourning from the Freudian perspective of Unheimlich, as well as from the de-subjectivation of those who, like Bol and Rial, take a shot on surviving facing new dimensions of otherness and social bond.