A Phenomenology of the Alien
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A Phenomenology of the Alien

Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other

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eBook - ePub

A Phenomenology of the Alien

Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other

About this book

A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other considers both literal and figurative experiences of the alien from a psychological, psychoanalytic and philosophical perspective.

Throughout the book, the authors wrestle with the unexplained, ineffable, unspeakable, sublime, uncanny, abject and Miéville's abcanny. This collection provides phenomenologies of encounters with the inscrutably alien from lights in the sky, dark corners of Weird fictional landscapes, architecture, technology, or the clinical symptom. The chapters examine fictional and nonfictional encounters with what exceeds the capacity to "make sense," taking a new approach to the topic of alterity and inviting the reader to examine how these encounters reflect our contemporary condition culturally, individually, clinically, theologically and philosophically.

Bridging cultural, psychoanalytic, literary, clinical, media, and religious studies, the novel approaches in this volume will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040353004
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Foreword: Nietzsche and Nihilism: Opening to the Dimension of the Other
  11. 1 Introduction: The Abcanny: Encounters With the Inscrutably Alien
  12. 2 The Divinalien: On Divine Alterity
  13. 3 The Alien Other: Cosmology and Social Transmission of UFO Narratives
  14. 4 The Human and the Smart House: Speculative Psychology and Systems of Attachment
  15. 5 Repetition and Return in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Trilogy
  16. 6 Alienation, Obsession, and Enthrallment in Thomas Ligotti’s “The Small People,” “Nethescurial,” and Other Weird Fiction
  17. 7 The Alien Inside: Jean Laplanche’s Internal Other in the Fiction of Brian Evenson and the Case of Ana
  18. Index