"Bog bodies ought to have been hidden, but nevertheless came into light. Locked in the space between the familiar and the unfamiliar, they would seem to be poster children for Freud’s theory on the uncanny. Yet Freud was uninterested in the bog body phenomenon; indeed he fainted when Jung insisted on bringing them into conversation. Nevertheless, his concepts resonate on a number of levels with bog bodies both as a physical phenomenon and as part of their cultural afterlives. And in a chapter on the archaeological uncanny I seek to understand how Freud’s reaction towards bog bodies may be tied to his civilization critique at large." 

Recommended by Karin Sanders, Professor of Scandinavian and author of Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination.