Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of illustrations
1. The uncanny: an introduction
2. Supplement: 'The sandman'
3. Literature, teaching, psychoanalysis
4. Film
5. The death drive
6. Silence, solitude and...
7. Darkness
8. Night writing
9. Inexplicable
10. Buried alive
11. Déjà vu
12. The double
13. Chance encounter
14. Cannibalism
15. Manifestations of insanity
16. A crowded after-life
17. To be announced
18. Mole
19. The 'telepathy effect'
20. Phantom text
21. The private parts of Jesus Christ
22. Book end
The uncanny: a bibliography
