resonance

uncanny

is not an exact reiteration but something that strikes a chord, that inexplicably rings true, a sound whose notes are prolonged. It is just-glimpsed connections and hidden structures that are felt to shimmer below the surface of things. It is what makes people say, It all fits together.

(Susan Lepselter. the resonance of unseen things p.4)

is the intensification produced by the overlapping, back and forth call of signs from various discourses.

I use the term "resonance" in this book to mean the intensification produced by the overlapping, back and forth call of signs from various discourses.

is a disrupter of the ordinary flow of time when an otherwise unremarkable event inexplicably recurs, seemingly pointing to an invisible agency or design through an "involuntary repetition".

Freud says that the uncanny disrupts the ordinary ow of time when an otherwise unremarkable event inexplicably recurs, seemingly point- ing to an invisible agency or design through what he calls "involuntary repetition" (1963 [1919]: 390):

is grounded in the notion that what seems strange is really the repressed familiar re- turning in a distorted form. It is the return of what we cannot bear to know.

Freud’s (1963 [1919]) famous essay on the uncanny is best known for his insight that what seems strange is really the repressed familiar re- turning in a distorted form. It is the return of what we cannot bear to know. Susan Lepselter

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