CSCT 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sigmund Freud, Binary Opposition, Neil Gaiman

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 2Z03
• Professor: Susie O' Brien

Document Summary

Wolves in the walls- neil gaiman unknown and idea that wolves are dangerous and are to be feared. It in fact is wolves in the walls and they do human like things. The family scares them away with chair legs. Protagonist lucy hears a sound in the walls. It listens to her and believes what she is saying when her family won"t also dangerous because they scare them away with chair legs. Lucy has a pig puppet she talks to. There is a wall meant to separate nature and culture. We put up figurative or literal walls to block out the scariness and unknown, but. Something that is strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. A translation of the german word, unheimlich (cid:523)(cid:498)homely(cid:499)= (cid:498)unhomely(cid:499)(cid:524) The wolves are already in the walls; they do not invade, because they are already there. Things are uncanny because they are familiar and frightening, and in a sense frightening because they are familiar.