When did Freud publish the uncanny?
1919
Uncanny/Originally published
Sigmund Freud takes up this question in a 1919 essay “The Uncanny,” and his thoughts on the subject are still useful 100 years later.
What is Freud’s uncanny theory?
For Freud, the uncanny locates the strangeness in the ordinary. Expanding on the idea, psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan wrote that the uncanny places us “in the field where we do not know how to distinguish bad and good, pleasure from displeasure”, resulting in an irreducible anxiety that gestures to the Real.
Who came up with the uncanny?
The term was first used by German psychiatrist Ernst Jentsch in his essay On the Psychology of the Uncanny, 1906. Jentsch describes the uncanny – in German ‘unheimlich’ (unhomely) – as something new and unknown that can often be seen as negative at first.
Who coined the term uncanny in Gothic literature?
One really useful term for thinking about Gothic writing, is the uncanny. Now this is a term that comes from Sigmund Freud – so something that’s new but that also takes us back to something, either in our own psychological past, or something in the world that’s archaic.
When did Sigmund Freud publish his paper on the uncanny?
Join us this winter for a haunting program, as we mark the centenary of the publication of Sigmund Freud’s paper on ‘The Uncanny’. The exhibition The Uncanny: A Centenary runs from 30 October 2019 to 9 February 2020, alongside a programme of related events.
When is the uncanny exhibition at the Freud Museum?
The exhibition The Uncanny: A Centenary runs from 30 October 2019 to 9 February 2020, alongside a programme of related events. Posted in Museum Blog by Jamie Ruers on September 18th, 2019.
What did Freud mean by the mark of the repressed?
In Freudian terminology: the uncanny is the mark of the return of the repressed. (See “Uncanny” 217) III. E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Sandman” and the Psychoanalytic Elements of the Uncanny. Jentsch’s theory of the automaton: he sees the undecidability of the inanimate/animate opposition as one source of the uncanny.
What was the theme of Freud’s essay The Uncanny?
Note the prominence of the thematic of eyes and seeing in Freud’s essay: loss of eyes as fear of castration; evil eye as manifestation of uncanny; super-ego as double, and its function of self-observation. Freud picks up this theme from Hoffmann’s story, which also has many motifs related to eyes and seeing.
