An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES. Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his
Richard Storm is passionate, hot-blooded, and running out of time.??Sophia Endering is cool, beautiful, and haunted by a centuries-old mystery.??Now the Hollywood filmmaker and the troubled young woma
Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works that comprise The Uncanny present some of his most influential explorations of the mind. In these piec
The Weimar period in Germany was a time of radical change, when the traditions and social hierarchies of Imperial Germany crumbled, and a young, deeply conflicted republic emerged. Modernity brought c
What do the occult sciences, séances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteenth century, modernizing intellectuals, religious lead
Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new bookReflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny, Gregorio Kohon examines a
What do the occult sciences, séances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteenth century, modernizing intellectuals, religious lead
Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new bookReflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny, Gregorio Kohon examines a
A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or
This volume on comparative Victorian Gothic literature explores the conflict between the rational and scientific sensibilities of the age with the development of spiritualist and occultist themes in p
In a picture book that retells the origin of the X-Men, Professor Charles Xavier is a mutant who possesses miraculous powers of mind control and dreams of using these powers to enable humans and mutan
The Inhumans have never been so Uncanny! Medusa, Black Bolt and the royal family have welcomed the Beast and the Human Torch...and even stranger, Johnny Storm and Medusa are an item! But what could ha
The Uncanny Inhumans are in the wars! First, Civil War II rocks the Marvel Universe, and the Inhumans are central to the conflict! As one of their own is blessed - or cursed - with the ability to pred
Jaundice and Kale are back from their adventure on the high seas, and they are settling back into a quiet life in Dullsville, just the way they like it. The tea is tepid, the oatmeal is tasteless, and
Jaundice and Kale are back from their adventure on the high seas, and they are settling back into a quiet life in Dullsville, just the way they like it. The tea is tepid, the oatmeal is tasteless, and
This book makes use of a privately held archive of Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre, and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage; the doctors
