Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity

by John Zilcosky

Winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
Recipient, 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship

Around 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810132109
• ISBN13: 9780810132108
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"