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This essay discusses Jeffrey Eugenides's novel The Virgin Suicides ( 1993) in relation to Freud'.~ theories of The Uncanny. The Uncanny arises in the sphere of the familiar and the unfamiliar. In the novel, there is something oddly familiar about the setting and the characters, but an unknown and unfamiliar element threatens the safe haven that is suburbia. The Lisbon girls are presented as symbols of the American Dream of a Promised Land, but end up representing an American Nightmare. Imprisoned and siiffocated by their ever-decaying home, it becomes obvious that the only release in suburban life is death. For the boys narrating the novel, the Lisbon girls become an obsession. They become part of a collective dream of happiness, cleanness, and pe1fection. With dark humor Eugenides strips the glossy veneer of American suburbia, exposing a world of sickness and unhappiness.

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"All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream": Freud's The Uncanny and the Destruction of the Suburban Ideal in Jeffrey Eugenides's <i>The Virgin Suicides</i>

"All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream": Freud's The Uncanny and the Destruction of the Suburban Ideal in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides