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Uncanny Encounters - Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity (Paperback)
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Uncanny Encounters - Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity (Paperback)
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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. This experience was most extreme for German travelers, who
arrived in the contact zones late, on the heels of other European
colonialists, and it resulted not in understanding or tolerance but
in an increased propensity for violence and destruction. The quest
for a "virginal," exotic existence proved to be ruined at its
source, mirroring back to the travelers demonic parodies of their
own worst aspects. In this strikingly original book, John Zilcosky
demonstrates how these popular "uncanny" encounters influenced
Freud's-and the literary modernists'-use of the term, and how these
encounters remain at the heart of our crosscultural anxieties
today.
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