1st Edition

Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny Ecoculture, Literature and Religion

By Rod Giblett Copyright 2019
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Sigmund Freud’s essay 'The Uncanny' is celebrating a century since publication. It is arguably his greatest and most fruitful contribution to the study of culture and the environment. Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny brings into the open neglected aspects of the uncanny in this famous essay in its centenary year and in the work of those before and after him, such as Friedrich... Read more

Acknowledgements









  1. The Uncanniness of Freud’s Uncanny






  2. Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny






  3. The Uncanny Urban Underside






  4. The Uncanniness of Schelling’s Uncanny






  5. The Uncanny and the Work of Walter Benjamin






  6. The Uncanny Cyborg






  7. The Uncanny and the Fictional








  8. The Uncanny Commonwealth of Christianity






  9. The Living Polytheism of the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism/Taoist Tai Chi Society




Index

Biography

Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. He is the author of many books in the environmental humanities, including People and Places of Nature and Culture (2011) and most recently Environmental Humanities and Theologies (2018), and is a pioneer in psychoanalytic ecology.