Childhood, severed heads, and the uncanny: Freudian precursors

<p>Freud's theories of the uncanny are generally treated ahistorically as an originary text. This essay places his work in the context of nineteenth-century English theories of childhood development (particularly the work of James Sully), the uncanny, and the unconscious. Drawing on liter...

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Main Author: Shuttleworth, S
Format: Journal article
Published: Indiana University Press 2015