Vampires, Witches, and Dopplegangers

Why are we fascinated by the idea of vampires, witches, and dopplegangers that we see in "The Vampire Diaries"? Perhaps they are the epitome of our dreams and childhood fantasies. From a psychological perspective, Freud would argue that we resorted to interest in vampires due to results from our oral stage in childhood maturation. There is a longing in many of us to fulfill selfish desires and vampires display exactly that. They care only for themselves and even then are indestructible. Particularly, in the show there is endless romance and drama. Witches have the power to go through loopholes and perform almost any spell to change whatever. Dopplegangers are like twins, but born in different centuries and have powers that other vampires do not have. These immortals do everything humans would imagine doing that is impossible. Maybe we live our dreams just by watching these characters be the person we want to be. Their lifetime is infinite, people are afraid of death so the idea of a never ending life does not sound too bad. Many of us struggle with sicknesses and disease. Vampires have the ability to cure themselves without any treatment, how idealistic would that be? Obviously, we know there are realistic downsides to having an infinite lifetime and the ability to be as destructive as one wants so our ego reminds to face reality and be content with just fantasies.

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