Abstract

Mosig's influential analysis of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider," detailing five methods of interpretation or "faces" of the tale: 1) autobiographical, 2) analytic (as an allegory of the psyche), 3) "anti-metaphysical" (the absurdity of destiny), 4) philosophical ("man's position in a mechanistic universe"), and 5) an allegorical critique of progress.

Translated into Italian as "Le quattro facce dell'estraneo" in Il Re in Giallo 1:2 (1977).

Abridged and translated into German as "Eine analytische Interpretation: 'Der Aussenseiter', ein Allegorie der Psyche" in Quarber Merkur 15:1 (1977).

Works Cited

• Nyctalops 8

Cited By

• Autobiography in Lovecraft

Included In

Books

• Discovering H. P. Lovecraft (2001)
• Essays Lovecraftian
• Mosig At Last: A Psychologist Looks At H. P. Lovecraft

Periodical

• Il Re in Giallo 1:2 (Italian-language)
• Nyctalops 9
• Quarber Merkur 15:1 (abridged, German-language)