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The final chapter explores the possibility that spirals, mazes and the built environment are to be understood not as actual spaces but as internal, psychological structures that are malfunctioning. Scattered within them are objects that signify cognitive distress. They take the form of Uncanny objects teetering between an inanimate world and a threateningly animate one.
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Belton, R.J. (2017). Vertigo, The Shining, Spatial Mental Models and the Uncanny. In: Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55188-3_10
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