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Yu, Myong-Ja. “The Uncanny-Mechanism and 『떠오름』(Aloft) by Chang-Rae Lee.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 40.3 (2014): 75-95. From E. Jentsch to S. Freud, several authors have written essays dealing with the uncanny. However, it seems much still remain to be explored, especially its role in the creative activities. This paper is an attempt to illustrate the dynamic function of the uncanny taken as a developmental mechanism. Its main stages observed in this paper are as follows: the first stage of settling of the uncanny affect figure, the second stage of pathological confusion, the third stage of fatal accident and the fourth stage of self-destruction or getting over that tragedy. Here the fatal accident could be overcome by chance, or the subject will survive it if somehow he is physically and mentally strong enough. Likewise, not only will he be able to avoid the self destruction, but realize he lived and went through a sort of fantasy. This opens him the next level of the uncanny-mechanism; After awakening, he now tries to reach out for an upgraded stage of uncanny, namely, the stage of sublimation. This last stage will sometimes be connected to the literary and artistic creations. The ‘double’, ‘deja vu’, and ‘unhomely home’ are frequent themes of those literary creations. Aloft(2004) by Chang-Rae Lee shows a quite subtle form of the uncanny effect evoked by a non- pathological protagonist. Its originality lies in that the author succeeds in presenting the invisible dynamism of the uncanny through the description of the visible elements although the story ends at the stage of the surmounted fatal accident without going much further to get into the stage of sublimation. (Kyungpook National University)