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The Uncanny (Penguin Modern Classics)

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ISBN-10: 0141182377

ISBN-13: 9780141182377

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sigmund Freud

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Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his contemporaries. In his biographical essay on da Vinci, included in this volume, he deconstructs both his character and the nature of his genius.
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Book details

List price: $21.81
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages: 240
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.55" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.308

List of illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
The uncanny: an introduction
Supplement: 'The Sandman'
Literature, teaching, psychoanalysis
Film
The death drive
Silence, solitude and ...
Darkness
Night writing: deconstruction reading politics
Inexplicable
Buried alive
Deja vu
The double
Chance encounter
Cannibalism: for starters
Manifestations of insanity: Hunger and contemporary fiction
A crowded after-life
To be announced
Mole
The 'telepathy effect': notes toward a reconsideration of narrative fiction
Phantom text
The private parts of Jesus Christ
Book end: deja vu (reprise)
The uncanny: a bibliography
Index