Haruki Murakami’s Use of the Uncanny in After Dark (2004): The Corruption of the Home Space and the Subjugation of the Female Characters
摘要
Sigmund Freud’s The Uncanny (1919) discusses “our most haunting experiences of otherness”, which happens when the familiar is rendered unfamiliar and triggers extreme anxietyanxiety and fear (1919: 35). The uncanny is the sensation that one experiences “when the boundary between fantasy and material reality is lost” (Seulin and Bronstein, 2020: 4).