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Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity John Zilcosky
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Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity
John Zilcosky
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 Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 15, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780810132108 |
| Publishers | Northwestern University Press |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 25 mm · 521 g |