LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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Sigmund Freud
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Edmund Lewis
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Edmund Burke
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Mary Shelley
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Uncanny is in reality nothing new or alien, but something which is familiar and old-established in the mind and which has become alienated from it only through the process of repression.”Sigmund Freud.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -From un-+ canny; thus “beyond one’s ken, ” or outside one’s familiar knowledge or perceptions. Compare Middle English unkanne (“unknown”). In the noun sense a translation of Sigmund Freud’s usage of German unheimlich (Das Unheimliche, 1919).
Detailed explanation-4: -Your Bibliography: Freud, S., 2015. “The Uncanny” (1919) by Sigmund Freud. [online] “The Uncanny” (1919) by Sigmund Freud.