THE HYPERTEXT AND THE UNCANNY: CAUSES AND EFFECTS

Abstract

According to Barthes, the perfect text is presented in multiply nets and also intertwined with others without to compromise his structure. These nets or connections made the text offered a universe of significance and significant, with is, there is no beginning, it’s reversible, it have lots of entrances and it impinges on the traditional notion of reading practices and linear writing. By this mean, this paper has the focus on demonstrate in which way the hypertext causes “uncanny”, based on Freud’s concept of “uncanny” presented on his essay Das Unheimlich (1919), with the propose to comprehend how the relation text/reader has been changing and causing distinct dynamism sensations related to the inertia of the paper, as we can observed in O Jogo da Amarelinha (1963), by Julio Cortázar, and also in texts with fantastic themes, as in E.T.A. Hoffman and Edgar Allan Poe, not in a sense of scare, but in the provocative and foregrounding meaning, that creates significant causes and effects in the digital literary practices connected to the cyberspace.