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The Uncanny
55 concepts · 79 definitions
- afterlife1
- animism1
- automaton1
- blindness1
- castration2
- castration complex2
- chance1
- comedy1
- complex1
- compulsion to repeat1
- dead1
- death1
- death wish1
- delusion of being watched1
- demon1
- doll2
- double5
- envy1
- evil eye1
- eye1
- familiar1
- father1
- female genitals1
- free will1
- good fortune1
- haunted house1
- imagination1
- love2
- madness2
- magic1
- magical thinking1
- mortality1
- narcissism1
- Oedipus1
- Olympia1
- premature burial1
- presentiment1
- primary - secondary narcissism1
- projection1
- regression1
- repetition2
- repression1
- revelation1
- Sandman2
- savage1
- self-observation1
- soul1
- storytelling1
- superstition1
- symbol1
- taboo1
- tomb1
- uncanny14
- wish1
- woman1
The Uncanny (n.) was once home: the unhomely was once familiar, and the prefix un- is the token of repression.
The Uncanny (n.) is nothing new or alien, but something familiar and old-established in the mind, estranged from it only by repression.
The Uncanny (n.) is something repressed which recurs — and it does not matter whether it was originally frightening at all.
The Uncanny (n.) is the frightening that leads back to what is known of old and long familiar.
A Double (n.) has become a thing of terror, just as the gods, after their religion collapsed, turned into demons.
A Double (n.) reverses its aspect once narcissism is outgrown: from an assurance of immortality it becomes the uncanny harbinger of death.
A Double (n.) began as an insurance against the destruction of the ego — an energetic denial of the power of death.
A Double (n.) houses all the unfulfilled but possible futures we still cling to in fantasy, and every striving that circumstances crushed.
Madness (n.) is uncanny because the onlooker sees forces at work in his fellow-man that he dimly senses in remote corners of himself.
Madness (n.) is uncanny to the onlooker because it shows automatic, mechanical processes at work behind the ordinary appearance of a mind.
Repetition (n.) when involuntary turns a harmless street into an uncanny trap: three times I fled the quarter of painted women, three times I found myself back.
Repetition (n.) that is unintended recalls the helplessness of certain dreams — lost in a mist, every path leads back to the same landmark.
Castration (n.) as a threat excites a violent and obscure emotion that lends its colouring to the fear of losing any organ.
Castration (n.) is represented in dreams by its opposite — a doubling or multiplication of the genital symbol.
A Doll (n.) will come to life, a child believes, if only she looks at it in a particular, extremely concentrated way.
A Doll (n.) is a thing children do not fear coming to life; they may even wish for it.
The Castration complex (n.) makes a severed limb — a hand cut off at the wrist, feet that dance by themselves — uncanny through its nearness.
The Castration complex (n.) is the childhood anxiety that the uncanny can be traced back to.
The Sandman (n.) is the father at whose hands castration is expected, wearing the mask of a nursery bogey.
The Sandman (n.) is always a disturber of love: he arrives exactly when happiness is within reach.
Chance (n.) becomes fate the moment it repeats: involuntary repetition forces on us the idea of something inescapable.