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This essay’s narrator likens repeatedly stumbling on lascivious “painted women” in an Italian piazza to Mark Twain colliding with furniture in a dark room in A Tramp Abroad. Terry Castle applied this essay’s ideas to 18th-century literature in The Female Thermometer. This essay uses a motif first studied via the film The Student of Prague to explain the “bewilderment” of the novel The Devil’s Elixirs. This essay cites Schelling’s definition of what “ought to have remained hidden but has come to light” in an etymology of a concept proposed by Ernst Jentsch. This essay analyzes a man who cries, “Lovely eyes—lovely eyes,” upon seeing an automaton to link the castration complex to a fear of losing one’s eyes. For 10 points, E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story “The Sandman” inspired what Sigmund Freud essay about the unsettling quality of the familiar? ■END■
ANSWER: “The Uncanny” [or “Das Unheimliche”] (The third sentence refers to “the double” and Otto Rank’s analysis of it.)
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