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The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny (Nightside)
$24.95
Things were going so well for P.I. John Taylor, that it was only a matter of time before everything hit the fan. Walker, the powerful, ever-present, never?to-be-trusted agent who runs the Nightside on behalf of The Authorities, is dying. And he wants John to be his successor-a job that comes with more baggage, and more enemies, than anyone can possibly imagine.

The Uncanny: An Introduction
$95.00
The uncanny is the weird, the strange, the mysterious, a mingling of the familiar and the unfamiliar. Even Freud, patron of the uncanny, had trouble defining it. Yet the uncanny is everywhere in contemporary culture. In this elegant book, Nicholas Royle takes the reader across literature, film, philosophy, and psychoanalysis as he marks the trace of the uncanny in the modern world. Not an introduction in the usual sense, Nicholas Royle's book is a geography of the uncanny as it manifests itself - and disturbs our thinking - in a range of disciplines.

Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia
$39.99
WHO ARE THE DARK X-MEN? He has his own Avengers team and now Norman Osborn has his own X-Men team. The other shoe has finally dropped and Emma Frost has betrayed Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men. And that's just one of the huge surprises in "UTOPIA." Is that Namor? Cloak and Dagger? Professor X?! The thing that you aren't ready for is that Osborn is right. Collects Uncanny X-Men #513-514, Dark Avengers #7-8, Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia, and Utopia Finale.

The Uncanny (Penguin Classics)
$15.00
The Uncanny is actually a collection of Freud's essays, all of which are of good quality, easily read (Freud is a talented writer and his essays are engaging and well written) and interesting to behold. The five essays are: Screen Memories, The Creative Writer and Daydreaming, Family Romances, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood, and The Uncanny.
Each of these is an interesting take on a field which is both easily accessible to anyone with little to no knowledge of Freud's other works/psychoanalytic theory, and a welcome expansion of application and insight for anyone who has read extensively on Freud. One of the most interesting aspects of these essays is their interest in both the historical and the creative, areas of specialty where Freud demonstrates the applicability of his theories to litereary and historic academia.
The essays are relatively short, engaging and enlightening. Many readers may have a bias against Freud's methodology and conclusions; however, he shows himself to be both a product of his times, and also a nuanced and considerate man, who is willing to accept that his theories are neither complete nor applicable in all situations. While this is the case, he nevertheless is working well within the confines of his psychoanalytic theory, and as such there is certain predictability in all of his findings and explanations. Freud's concern with childhood memories and the resulting transfiguration of memories concerning sexuality during a (male) child's early years is the primary variable, to the exlusion of almost all else. Though Freud's work may have certain oversights and fixations, it nevertheless provides an interesting alternative or augmentative method to understanding psychology, creativity and the uncanny (not to mention Leonardo's sexuality).