%0 Journal Article
%T Uncanny Love: Schelling¡¯s Meditations on the Spirit World
%A Laurie Johnson
%J Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
%D 2010
%I Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
%X (E): This essay analyses a little-known fragment which Schelling wrote shortly after his wife Caroline¡¯s death, entitled Clara: Or, on Nature's Connection to the Spirit World (1810-1811), in which Schelling deploys several themes that Freud will identify as uncanny, including animism, omnipotence of thoughts and man¡¯s attitude toward death. Although it nominally participates in a contemporary discussion about clairvoyance and immortality, the fragment focuses far more on the commemoration and representation of the dead, and the uncanny re-insertion of the dead into the everyday of the living. The hypothesis maintained here is that Clara can be read as a legitimate part of Schelling¡¯s philosophy rather than as only an ode to Caroline, and hence also as a meaningful contribution to Romantic thought and to the historical trajectory of the uncanny.  (F):  Le pr¨¦sent article analyse un fragment peu connu de Schelling ¨¦crit juste apr¨¨s la mort de sa femme Caroline. Intitul¨¦   Clara ou le rattachement de la Nature au Monde de l¡¯Esprit   (1810-1811), ce texte explore un certain nombre de th¨¨mes que Freud va interpr¨¦ter comme typiques de l¡¯inqui¨¦tante ¨¦tranget¨¦ : l¡¯animisme, la toute-puissance de la pens¨¦e et l¡¯attitude l¡¯homme face ¨¤ la mort. Alors que ce texte ne semble pas s¡¯¨¦loigner de discussions contemporaines sur la voyance et l¡¯immortalit¨¦, ses v¨¦ritables th¨¨mes sont la comm¨¦moration et la repr¨¦sentation des morts, puis l¡¯insertion des morts dans le quotidien des vivants. L¡¯article d¨¦fend l¡¯hypoth¨¨se que   Clara   ne doit pas ¨ºtre lu comme une ode ¨¤ Caroline mais comme un v¨¦ritable fragment de la philosophie de Schelling, c¡¯est-¨¤-dire comme une contribution significative de la pens¨¦e romantique ¨¤ l¡¯histoire du concept d¡¯inqui¨¦tante ¨¦tranget¨¦.
%K Freud
%K Mourning
%K Schelling
%K Uncanny
%U http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/93