The uncanny

Contents

1. The uncanny: an introduction -- 2. Supplement: 'The Sandman' -- 3. Literature, teaching, psychoanalysis -- 4. Film -- 5. The death drive -- 6. Silence, solitude and -- 7. Darkness -- 8. Night writing: deconstruction reading politics -- 9. Inexplicable -- 10. Buried alive -- 11. Deja vu -- 12. The double -- 13. Chance encounter -- 14. Cannibalism: for starters -- 15. Manifestations of insanity: Hunger and contemporary fiction -- 16. A crowded after-life -- 17. To be announced -- 18. Mole -- 19. The 'telepathy effect': notes toward a reconsideration of narrative fiction -- 20. Phantom text -- 21. The private parts of Jesus Christ -- 21. Book end: deja vu (reprise).