The "Uncanny" and the Gaze

Abstract

In this paper, relying on Freud’s concept of the “uncanny” and Lacan’s theory of the gaze, my aim is to show that in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing nature, the physical environment, tangibly presents the contents denied and lying hidden in the core of the human psyche and in the depth of the colonial society.