The Black Cat – the Uncanny as a Semiotic Phenomenon in the Deconstructive/Psychoanalytic Reading of Poe’s Gothic Story
The Black Cat – the Uncanny as a Semiotic Phenomenon in the Deconstructive/Psychoanalytic Reading of Poe’s Gothic Story

Summary/Abstract: The paper engages with the uncanny as a semiotic phenomenon in de-constructive/psychoanalytical reading of Poe’s Gothic tale The Black Cat. It approaches the uncanny in its triple semiotic manifestations: the theme of the double, repetition-compulsion and the return of the repressed. Delving into the complex, entangling nature of binaries or dualities, the paper offers a three-tier perspective on the uncanny as a means of de-constructing bothness and exposing the ultimate necessity of either-or-ness philosophy. Sadly, however, this analysis shows darkness and perverseness as the finite ‘choice’ in the absence of a creative, procreative and constructive response to life.

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