ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

GOTHIC LITERATURE

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The uncanny is ____
A
foreshadowing
B
fear of the unknown
C
a disruption in the natural order
D
something familiar but the familiar thing is encountered in a context that is unsettling, unfamiliar, or eerie.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The uncanny is the psychological experience of something as not simply mysterious, but creepy, often in a strangely familiar way. It may describe incidents where a familiar thing or event is encountered in an unsettling, eerie, or taboo context.

Detailed explanation-2: -This, for Freud, is the uncanny-it is the dread we feel in situations in which our childish fantasies and fears appear more real and more true than our adult worldviews. If we have this idea in mind, the difference between familiar things that delight us and familiar things that terrify us start to make sense.

Detailed explanation-3: -Freud in “The uncanny” links the interpretation of uncanniness to compulsive repetition and thus makes the connection to trauma and birth anxiety discussed in later works such as “Beyond the pleasure principle” and “Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety”.

Detailed explanation-4: -“Whoever possesses something that is at once valuable and fragile is afraid of other people’s envy, in so far as he projects on to them the envy he would have felt in their place.”

Detailed explanation-5: -Involuntary repetition yields an atmosphere of the uncanny where what normally would not cause dread and danger suddenly is seen differently. Therefore, Freud also considers repetition-compulsion in relation to the uncanny.

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