Recognising the homely in an unheimlich world : rationality and the uncanny ecosphere

• Main Author: Lingesh, Dhanya
• Other Authors: Sim Wai Chew
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148515
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis investigates how the uncanny facilitates an individual’s return to the Real truths of the ecological world and to an affective and authentic self, by forcing them to recognise the problematic nature of their faith in widely accepted rational and scientific ‘realities’, which are often de...