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A review by adorableautist
The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Freud often has moments of genuine insight, only to undermine them by making bizarre leaps in logic in order to relate everything back to his seemingly endless fixation on genitals. My favorite examples from this particular essay are that men find the notion of losing their eyes uncanny because they fear the loss of their testicles, and that people find being being buried alive uncanny because of a repressed desire to return to the womb. Incredible stuff!
Still, Freud's description of the almost recursive relationship between the canny and uncanny is genuinely quite brilliant, and his attempts at defining something so ephemeral as "uncanny fear" are thought provoking, if not quite as convincingly universal as he might hope.
Still, Freud's description of the almost recursive relationship between the canny and uncanny is genuinely quite brilliant, and his attempts at defining something so ephemeral as "uncanny fear" are thought provoking, if not quite as convincingly universal as he might hope.