ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inbreeding, Rationality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Natalie Taylor

Document Summary

Juxtaposition: two things that are being compared / placed side by side to provoke comparisions. Putting images / words side by side to emphasize something. Increasing used to offer both psychological insight and social critique. Investigation of human behaviour in extreme circumstances: makes the familiar the site of extreme distress, prompting on examination of underlying social power structures. If someone becomes ill (alzheimer"s) and they won"t remember you and they won"t be the same person either. You can"t recognize your own house when its dark. Anxiety / fight or flight / freeze mode your cognitive process will diminish. More panic = vicious cycle = everything just seems threatening: freud said, on experience of the uncanny can be triggered by the return of the repressed . A repressed memory / emotion can come back and haunt you. The fall of the house of usher (edgar allan poe)