The fantastic phenomenon is an attack on the rational and the logical. The intrusion of uncertainty destabilizes the character's universe. It arouses anguish in him; a form of visceral fear in the face of an unknown and unexplained event. The victim of these events is torn between a rational explanation of the facts and a supernatural explanation. Ghosts, spirits, vampires, haunted houses and supernatural creatures have always fueled the fantastic tales of the 19th century. But the fantastic also explores the phenomena of consciousness and the theme of identity. Psychosis, obsessions, madness, monomania, paranoia, the figure of an evil double or the disruption of human behavior are at the heart of fantastic literature.The duplication of ide...