Summary Of Kearon And Leach's Burglary

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Kearon and Leach (2000) examined burglary and the changes within the home when the boundaries become obscured. Burglary destroys the privacy of the home, jolting the sense of safety and relaxation within the home. The ownership of the home because a central issue when the home is invaded. Kearon and Leach states how the objects within the home are significant as there is an emotional relationship between a homeowner and their possessions. The possessions have a symbolic identity; they make up the territory of home and add to the personal aspect of the domestic space. Uncanny begins to creep into the domestic, leaving it a space of ambiguity and liminality.

Previous research unpacks the uncanny, with Freud (1919/1955) as a familiarly yet also

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