The Uncanny In Paul Auster's Moon Palace

Paul Auster is a modern American writer, creating considerable novels, which are featured with coincidences. His novels center on the psychological state of the human beings, hoping to reflect the confusions of the modern people. Such confusions disturb the balance of people's intellectual certainty so fiercely that people become unsafe and unstable in acknowledgement of the self. The failure in self-pursuit generates the uncanny, driving people to confront the threat of the jungle and the anxiety as well.This thesis takes the novel The Moon Palace as an example to analyze the psychological state of the characters in order to figure out the presentation of the uncanny and its cause. Based on Freud's statement on the uncanny, the author aims to introduce the features of the uncanny abided with the novel to check out the impact of the uncanny. Exemplification is the major methodology, as presented in the novel that the psychological state of the characters shows the uncanny; meanwhile these experiences narrated as convincing proof examples for the uncanny research. Both of them combine together to create special artistic characteristics.In Chapter one, it describes the loss in the novel and analyses the contents of the loss in the genealogical and psychological backgrounds. In Chapter two, it depicts the rescue of the human beings when suffered in the loss, self-rescue and rescue from the other included. In Chapter three, it narrates the return crisis after the loss and the rescue, resulting in the uncanny of the past.