Miért nevettem éjjel?
Why Did I Laugh Tonight? The Birth of das Unheimliche in the Romantic Age

Summary/Abstract: Through the analysis of Keats’ poem Why Did I Laugh Tonight?, the author delineates a new existential situation assumed by the romantic/modern individual. Abandoned by God and the “Demon” alike, the romantic man is overwhelmed by an existential feeling of homelessness and solitude, or “outsiderness”, and is cast away into nothingness. In his aloneness, this new type on individual is cut off not only from God, but from transcendence altogether, a situation leading to his estrangement from himself, or to metaphysical homelessness and the uncanny (das Unheimliche) as perpetual shadows cast on modernity.

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