Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity - John Zilcosky - Books - Northwestern University Press - 9780810132092 - February 15, 2016
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Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity


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Around 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find traces of the spectacularly foreign. They discovered instead what Freud called, several years later, the uncannily familiar: disturbing reflections of themselves--either actual Europeans or Westernized natives.


240 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 15, 2016
ISBN13 9780810132092
Publishers Northwestern University Press
Pages 240
Dimensions 152 × 226 × 20 mm   ·   388 g

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