History & The Arts
Mastering our fear of death with the Jack-o’-lantern
...human, but it’s hollow; the lights are on, but there’s nobody home! The uncanny is also that which is simultaneously homely and scary, since it reminds us of our repressed fears. When we encounter it, what we’ve tried to forget has again returned and come to light (Reuers, 2019). Insofar as we can take pleasure in reawakening beliefs we once had in infancy, the...