Understand 'The Uncanny' and how it applies to Gothic literature

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He was a German theorist who studied how anatomy worked.

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist (studied the brain) and the founder of psychoanalysis.

The belief that all people have repressed memories which they can only share through hypnosis.

The belief that all people possess unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories.

The belief that all people share similar thought patterns and unconscious destires.

death, dead bodies, zombies, spirits, ghosts, doppelgangers and magic

science, knowledge, reason and acquisition of new knowledge

What does Freud list that is associated with the Uncanny?

that which is familiar to us in spite of the dread it evokes

that which we cannot comprehend nor understand

Gothic novels often deal with ghosts and the supernatural

They are full of such uncanny effects – simultaneously frightening, unfamiliar and yet also strangely familiar.

How does the Gothic genre link to the Uncanny?

What is the first stage of Todorov's narrative theory?

recognition that the equilibrium has been disrupted

What does the second stage suggest typically happens in a story?

resolution and reinstatement of equilibrium

solving the problem that caused the disruption

Which of the following is an example of disruption in Jekyll and Hyde?