uncanny

is grounded in an uncertainty about the animate or inanimate, human or inhuman, mechanical or organic status of the other.

for Jentsch, the uncanny derives from uncertainty about the animate or inanimate, human or inhuman, mechanical or organic status of the other.

is grounded in the idea that our fears turn on a dreaded identification with the (in)human other whose ambiguous emotional credentials call into question our own.

for Jentsch, our fears turn on a dreaded identification with the (in)human other, an other whose ambiguous emotional credentials call into question our own.

is that wherein the uncertainty surrounding the ambiguously animate other sparks fears for our own status as feeling subjects.

Where for Freud, then, the figure of the numb, affectless other has little or no relation to the subject's feeling of fear, for Jentsch, the spectacle of the ambiguously animate other has been installed in a pivotal position, the intellectual uncertainty it engenders about its status in turn sparking fears for our own status as feeling subjects.

is wholly other, provoking us to doubt the stability of our familiar categories of self and other, inside and outside, animate and inanimate.

for Jentsch, the uncanny is wholly other, provoking us to doubt the stability of our familiar categories of self and other, inside and outside, animate and inanimate.

Erst Jentsch

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