![]() I align the superhero with the posthuman (the technologically advanced humans of cybercultures), as signifying human perfectibility. ![]() Fourth, I propose that superheroes present a certain utopian promise. I argue that it is the altruistic self that separates the superhero from the Other, the passive, spectator human. Third, the self of the superhero lies not in a sense of the self but in selflessness. Second, I suggest, filiation (to do with the family and therefore the “home”) folds into affiliation, where affiliations build on, substitute for and supplant the familial. ![]() Superheroes are instances where the uncanny asserts itself between the self-other dichotomy. The self-other dynamic in superhero mythos is an instance of the uncanny, which includes themes of doubling, ghostliness and a haunting that is the tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar, or the unfamiliar that partakes of the familiar. This essay looks at the dynamics of self and the Other in superhero comics. ![]()
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