SCIENCE FICTION, ECOLOGY OF MIND AND THE UNCANNY IN “DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?” BY PHILIP K. DICK

• Authors: Sevilla-Vallejo Santiago
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses the interdiscursive relations between Philip K. Dick’s science fiction, the ecology of mind by Gregory Bateson, and the Freudian concept of the uncanny. Gregory Bateson differentiates primary and secondary anthropological processes or, in other words, unconscious and language, and Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? reflect this inner interdiscursive relation. Finally, the Freudian concept of the uncanny demonstrates how androids produce an uneasy feeling due to their psychology, which seems very different from that of humans, but which is actually much more similar than expected.

Keywords

EN

SCIENCE FICTION; ECOLOGY OF MIND; UNCANNY; EMPATHY; COMMUNITY; DYSTOPIA

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 119 – 133

Contributors

author

Sevilla-Vallejo Santiago

• Faculty of Education, University of Salamanca, Paseo Canalejas 169, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9017-4949

Identifiers

DOI

http://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2022.14.4.9