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The uncanny seems to be related to beliefs we once held when we were children that we’ve repressed or covered over or hidden away to become adults. We cover over these beliefs because, of course, those beliefs are wrong and we don’t want to be wrong. We want to be grown up.
Nov 1, 2023 · Though exact definitions of the uncanny differ, Jentsch’s core ideas are still present in scholarship analyzing the impact of the uncanny in Gothic literature, art, digital media, and robotics. This guide will go on to explore how Jentsch and Freud define the uncanny, and representations of the uncanny from the nineteenth century to today.
How does the uncanny appear in literature? Professor Ray Malewitz answers these questions using examples from Sigmund Freud, Edgar Allan Poe, and common horror films. The short video is designed to help high school and college English students to not only identify examples of the uncanny in literature but also to analyze how this feeling is ...
Feb 22, 2021 · The uncanny blends elements of the familiar and the unfamiliar, the revealed and the concealed, until the result makes us feel uncomfortable, uncertain, and ill at ease. Indeed, Freud ultimately defines the uncanny as “that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar.”.
The uncanny is not just a matter of the weird or spooky, but has to do more specifically with a disturbance of the familiar. Such a disturbance might be hinted at by way of the word ‘familiar’ itself. ‘Familiar’ goes back to the Latin familia, a family: we all have some sense of how odd families can seem (whether or not one is ‘part ...
Feb 20, 2014 · This is a type of forced-abjection — being stigmatized via rape into the “other.”. Whereas we see Medea “othered” through her sexuality, here we see a perspective that one can be forcibly othered by an opposing group. Abject seems to be closely related to the corrupted, ruined, tainted, and exiled. This parallels Medea’s condition ...
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study of aesthetics. But it does occasionally happen that he has to interest himself in some particular province of that subject; and this province usually proves to be a rather remote one, and one which has been neglected in the specialist literature of aesthetics. The subject of the 'uncanny' is a province of this kind. It is undoubtedly ...
