Uncanny modernity
Subtitle: cultural theories, modern anxieties
By: edited by Jo Collins and John Jervis.
Contributors: Collins, Jo, 1978-; Jervis, John, 1946-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780230517714
Subjects: Psychology; Experience; Supernatural; Culture -- Psychological aspects; Postmodernism -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jo Collins and John Jervis; title: Uncanny presences / John Jervis; title: Night and the uncanny / Elisabeth Bronfen; title: Uncanny reflections, modern illusions : sighting the modern optical uncanny / Tom Gunning; title: As it happened...Borderline, the uncanny and the cosmopolitan / James Donald; title: Access denied : memory and resistance in the contemporary ghost film / Scott Brewster; title: The uncanny after Freud : the contemporary trauma subject and the fiction of Stephen King / Roger Luckhurst; title: "Neurotic men" and a spectral woman : Freud, Jung and Sabina Spielrein / Jo Collins; title: The urban uncanny : the city, the subject, and ghostly modernity / Julian Wolfreys; title: Profane illuminations, delicate and mysterious flames : mass culture and uncanny gnosis / Michael Saler; title: Terrorism and the uncanny, or, the caves of Tora-Bora / David Punter; title: "On the psychology of the uncanny" (1906) : Ernst Jentsch / translated by Roy Sellars.