Uncanny Encounters and the Paradox of Lawrentian Attachment in The Rainbow

[...]the increasing deracination brought about by industrial developments greatly complicates those lives and puts pressure on interpersonal relations. According to Hugh Haughton, Freud's essay "The Uncanny" (1919) is a very strange essay "about a particularly intense experience of strangeness" (xlii). [...]uncanny moments in the novel tend to occur during crises of attachment often triggered by the presence, prospect, or even image of a child, an indication of a textual awareness that underlying the adult attachment problems there is an emotional residue deriving from childhood and the maternal bond. [...]his portrayal of relations tends to the extremes, and his fictional depictions of attachment and the search for balanced relatedness often involve a paradox that several critics have noted in his work.