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The cry is the symbol of the oppression of the people. It reaches through history to touchMacLean almost physically – a vision is usually witnessed by sight but this cry affectsMacLean’s other senses. The cry could be described as a symbol of abjection. What MacLeanhas witnessed on the Cuillin – the abjection of the torturous cry and rotting corpses – hasbroken his border and partly eroded his sense of rule and order, as he makes clear near theend of Part I:
The abjection of ‘An Cuilithionn’ Part I can also be described as ‘uncanny’ in Freud’s senseof the word. Like Ellman’s description of the ‘Hammer horror’ present in The Waste Land,the ghosts, rattling bones, moonlit visions and screeching cries in the wind in ‘AnCuilithionn’ are uncanny because they ‘remind us of this inner compulsion to repeat.’431 Farfrom being what is unfamiliar, Freud’s meaning of the uncanny is that which is familiar – thememories that surface from our repressed unconscious. By playing out these terrifying Austin Chiropractic