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My starting point is the influence of three chapters in Janet Wolff’s Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism(1995) on my Southdean project (1999-2005). That project is introduced in the context of a play of presence and absence and the tension between das heimliche and das unheimliche, before the paper goes on to discuss the essay form in the context of a psychosocial conception of a polytheistic 'deep mapping'. It then examines the Border ballad 'Tam Lin' as an example of an uncanny 'at home-ness' before relating this back to Wolff’s conception of the resident alien as embodying an auto/ethnography of displacement. The penultimate section takes the previous exposition and locates it within the context of John Wylie's paper 'Landscape, Absence and the Geographies of Love'. This provides a basis for establishing a position focused on oscillation between presence and absence. The final section relocates the argument in a social context. My aim overall is to raise questions about the tensions between the 'essaying' undertaken through 'deep mapping' and the orthodox production of disciplinary academic texts.
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