No One’s Home: The Unheimlich in Freud, Heidegger and The Haunting
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https://doi.org/10.65828/4317ry86Keywords:
Home, uncanny, unheimlich, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, Freud, Heidegger, hauntingAbstract
This paper is an existential exploration of home and homesickness through the concept of the unheimlich. Using personal, clinical and cinematic case studies, I draw on classical psychoanalysis and phenomenology through their familiar roots in the uncanny to re-examine the unheimlich and its therapeutic application for existential homelessness.
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