Questions, Resources, and General Banter - The Uncanny

[Jim]

Sigmund Freud published these five essays in various journals between 1899 and 1919. Penguin published this translation in 2003 as “The Uncanny” as part of their re-translation and re-publication of many of Freud’s famous works.

I selected this volume as a kind of background text for our final four books of 2015 – Op Oloop, At Swim-Two Birds, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Mulligan Stew - each of which is a work of extraordinary imagination. I think Uncle Sigmund would have enjoyed them…


Wikipedia page for Sigmund Freud:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund...


Freud speaks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sm5Y...



Feel free to use this thread to ask questions and post links to resources for Sigmund Freud and The Uncanny.

Also, if you’ve written a review of the book, please post a link to share with the group.

[Alex]

I've just started reading The Uncanny and I'm totally sucked into it.

[Zadignose]

Oh, I don't know if I commented earlier, but I should just give the general warning now: If you purchase the Kindle version from Amazon, you will be getting only one of the five essays (The essay titled "The Uncanny," but not the complete collection in the linked Penguin edition). I bought it, and really liked it, but now I'm thinking I need to buy the paper edition and have it shipped internationally so I can get the rest of the essays.

[Zadignose]

And, those of you who have read E.T.A. Hoffmann in an earlier group read (or individually) may appreciate having that background, as Freud cites Hoffmann's writings for several examples of Uncanny phenomena. It's not a requisite of course, as I haven't read Hoffmann yet, but it would be interesting to hear from those who have.

[Alex]

Unfortunately, I got the Kindle edition. So is the only essay in the Kindle edition, "The Uncanny," the last essay in the Penguin edition?

[Jim]

Alex wrote: "Unfortunately, I got the Kindle edition. So is the only essay in the Kindle edition, "The Uncanny," the last essay in the Penguin edition?"

Unfortunately, yes. However, Freud's work is in the public domain (I think?), so you can likely find these texts at Project Gutenberg or PG Australia

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://gutenberg.net.au/

[Zadignose]

It is. I am now awaiting the arrival of my paper edition, which I was rather late to order.

[Jim]

Zadignose wrote: "It is. I am now awaiting the arrival of my paper edition, which I was rather late to order."

No worries, this is an open discussion scheduled thru the end of the year...

[Alex]

Jim wrote: "Alex wrote: "Unfortunately, I got the Kindle edition. So is the only essay in the Kindle edition, "The Uncanny," the last essay in the Penguin edition?"

Unfortunately, yes. However, Freud's work i..."

It is on gutenberg.org, but unfortunately again, it appears to be only the one essay ... and in German. On to Penguin.

[Zadignose]

I found a free .pdf for the first essay here: http://complit.utoronto.ca/wp-content...

That was the first link that I followed, and there are probably other versions circulating. The .pdf has some copyedit issues, such as where the word "ascertain" is printed as the two words "as certain..." But it's surely readable, and I'll use this for the first week's reading while awaiting my Penguin, so I can plunge right in.

[Alex]

Great. Thanks.

[mkfs]

I made the same mistake -- bought the "Kindle version" and ended up with just the essay on The Uncanny (which can be downloaded from many universities if you search for "Freud Uncanny PDF").

Fortunately, I found an electronic copy of the Norton Freud Reader, and it has most of the other essays.