Author(s): Pratikshya Mishra

Abstract: This paper seeks to understand the concept of Julia Kristeva’s Abject Theory and Sigmund Freud’s ‘The Uncanny’ through a short fictional work of speculative fiction titled ‘The Head’ by Bora Chung. The uncanny and the Abject have been used multiple times in combination to analyze literary works, however, the relationship between these two has not been properly defined. In this work, I attempt to discern this relationship through the primary text and understand the position of the subject, the object and the Abject.

Keywords: Abject, Uncanny, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalytic Theory

Article Info: Received: 08 May 2024; Received in revised form: 16 Jun 2024; Accepted: 22 Jun 2024; Available online: 30 Jun, 2024

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.93.66