Comparing Frankenstein 'And Turn Of The Screw' By Mary Shelley

‘Whatever has an uncanny effect in real life has the same in literature. But the writer can intensify and multiply this effect far beyond what is feasible in normal experience’ [Sigmund Freud]. Provide and evaluate examples of the ‘uncanny’ in literature with reference to Freud.
In this essay I will be discussing the use of Freud’s theory of the ‘uncanny’ in literary texts, and what affect this has on the reader through researching how it achieves its intensely terrifying effect. My primary literary analysis will be on the ‘Turn of the screw’ by Henry James and ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley but also other secondary texts to consolidate my points.
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Another example of this in literature is from Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley, it has been argued by scholars that Frankenstein’s monster is in fact a representation of Victor’s ‘id’, “the Monster is thus simultaneously a phallic image, a representation of Frankenstein’s conscious sexual guilt and fear, and an embodiment of his Id – the unconscious irrational impulses, the amoral libido-fuelled forces which can act either for good (creation) or evil (destruction and death).“ this is all due to his past traumas in life such as his mother’s tragic death to scarlet fever. So, these manifestations of horrors and scary beings/situations are all part of the character’s mind and emotional dealings with what they have seen, such as the repression of guilt, worry and embarrassment that they are finding difficult to deal with