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Article
Publication Date
Spring 2019
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Raritan
Abstract
Freud, in his essay on The Uncanny, explores a spatial confusion: a state of mind in which one sees "out there" something palpably shaped from "in here." Freud's most striking vignette in the essay rehearses how, some years earlier, he found himself wandering through an unknown Italian village, looking for the train station. He perused his map, made the appropriate right and left turns--and found himself in the red-light district. Here, Weinstein returns repeatedly to the traffic that unpredictably occurs between us ("in here") and the world ("out there"). Because we are endowed with stunningly intricate minds, we move through space and time interestingly, circuitously, mistakenly. With respect to time, we look not only straight ahead but forward and backward, too.
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Philip M. Weinstein.
(2019).
"Soul-Error".
Raritan.
Volume 38,
Issue 4.
1-11.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-english-lit/387
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