The Uncanny - Freud

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Uncanny valley

-1970 -robots and other inanimate objects looking too close to human beings and passing the point where they become revolting to us

Examples of uncanny

-mixture of familiar/ unfamiliar -past intruding on present (deja vu) -familiar made strange -doubles or strange repetitions

Jentsh

Freuds un-please uncanny definitions: -intellectual uncertainty -doubts, really alive

Uncanny

Partaking of a supernatural character, mysterious, weird, uncomfortably strange or unfamiliar

Primitive Beliefs

animism doubles

Complexes

castration complex

heimlich

homely

The uncanny becomes less of a lost or suppressed human nature...

more product of technical innovation

Castration complex:

penis seen as symbol of power and worth, but one that can be removed (boy sees that girl does not have penis and thinks she did something wrong to have it removed so he is now afraid of father)

Freud was interested in...

people suffering from mechanical impulses to repeat painful memories

heimlich and unheimlich

secret, hidden

Freud's thesis

secretly familiar, undergone repression and returned from it -infinite complexes -primitive beliefs

technology can produce uncanny feelings because...

split between familiar and unfamiliar

unheimlich

strange, unfamiliar

the uncanny in many ways is a

technological phenomenon of shifts and disturbances of technical innovation

Main theme:

theme of the Sandman: who tears out children's eyes (fear of going blind is substitute of being castrated)


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