Uncanny Research Articles

Lenguaje y extrañeza: una lectura psicoanalítica y gótica de “El cuervo” de Edgar Allan Poe

Este artículo explora la relevancia teórica que lo ominoso freudiano (das Unheimlich) y la angustia lacaniana (l’ Angoisse) tienen para los estudios literarios góticos. Distinto de lo sublime y lo terrorífico, lo ominoso (o siniestro) se caracteriza por presentar elementos intrínsecamente familiares que producen, no obstante, miedo y repulsión, pero a pesar de ello, también generan fascinación. Para Freud, lo ominoso está relacionado con los mecanismos de la castración y la represión haciendo que lo más hogareño, lo cual ha quedado reprimido en lo inconsciente, retorne transformándose en algo extraño. Por su parte, Lacan explica el fenómeno de lo ominoso a partir del concepto de angustia, la cual emerge cada vez que un objeto que obligatoriamente debería estar velado aparece importunando al sujeto. Finalmente, todo este deambular teórico por los conceptos de lo siniestro y la angustia serán puestos a prueba a partir de una lectura gótica y psicoanalítica del poema “El cuervo” de Edgar Allan Poe en donde el elemento destacado será el lenguaje.

Uncanny Adaptations: Revisionary Narratives in Bryan Fuller’sHannibal

Uncanny Adaptations: Revisionary Narratives in Bryan Fuller’s<i>Hannibal</i>

Uncanny Beloveds and the Return of the Repressed

Résumé : Au cours de l'histoire ottomane, une alliance de longue date avec la Maison Giray avait permis une coopération militaire entre Ottomans et Tatars; pourtant, les écrivains ottomans classiques entretenaient une position paradoxale vis à vis des Tatars de Crimée. Un courant de traditions les présentait comme d’habiles et beaux guerriers, mais une prétendue trahison des Tatars lors de la bataille contre Tīmūr en 1402 devint aussi un motif récurrent de l'historiographie ottomane, justifiant l'ambivalence que les élites de cour ressentaient envers les Gengiskhanides et le monde des steppes septentrionales. La période dramatique de l'expulsion des Tatars et leur réinstallation dans les territoires ottomans dans les années 1850 et 1860 conduisirent progressivement les écrivains ottomans à une réévaluation de la Crimée, projetant une nouvelle image romantique des Tatars devenus des musulmans héroïques, assiégés et loyaux. Enfin, au xxe siècle, de nouveaux paradoxes surgirent, présentant les Tatars - autrefois nomades - comme étroitement apparentés à la mer Noire et à l'Anatolie, mais aussi nettement exotiques et « asiatiques ». Cette étude démontre que des processus complexes et cycliques de fluidité et de cristallisation étaient continuellement à l’œuvre dans les perceptions ottomanes et dans leurs définitions des peuples non-ottomans et des Tatars en particulier.

불쾌한 골짜기와 미적으로 더 좋음

불쾌한 골짜기와 미적으로 더 좋음

What is the Uncanny?

What is the Uncanny?

Culture and Human Action as Forces of Environmental Problems in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart has been subjected to different critical and theoretical orientations that have examined and reexamined the novel within the context of various existential realities but this study is an eco-critical reading of the novel. Ecocriticism is not only the study of the environment in literature as the environment has been an issue in literary studies. It is rather a radical approach to rethinking the relationship between humans and the environment; a proponent of ethical human-environmental interactions. Through the eco-critical methodical approach, the study interrogates and reveals the cultural orientations that induce environmental mistreatment by the characters in the novel under study. Environmental problems in the novel are revealed both as implacable forces and uncanny reactions. The discovery is that the characters subdue the environment with various socio-economic activities as the environment consequently reacts to the actions of the characters. The patterns of oppression and subjugation of the environment are revealed as the characters are considered responsible for the environmental problems that threaten their existence. The study advances the process of rethinking literature and criticism as it also advances the frontiers of the emerging discipline of environmental humanities.

Cultivating a dark haecceity: a pedagogy of the uncanny and dark transports

In her recent work, Donna Haraway opines: ‘staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present’.1 This paper seeks to address troubling notions of presence in the context of Anthropocene...

Introduction Out of the Ordinary: Women of the Spanish Avant-Garde

While male artists dominated the Avant-Garde movement in Paris, Barcelona and Madrid in the first third of the twentieth century, women began to make their mark simultaneously. In Spain artists such as Remedios Varo, Maruja Mallo, the Argentinian Norah Borges, Ángeles Santos and María Blanchard, as well as several female artists working outside Spain such as Raquel Forner and Leonora Carrington, because of their experiences as outsiders, searched for the absolute, for transcendence through their art. In general, the originality and the ultimate success of these artists were derived from a heavy dose of what Freud labelled das Unheimliche, the uncanny, the ineffable, the dreamlike qualities which result from the subversion of reality and the unwitting inspiration to transgress the boundaries of the male establishment.

The Indigenous Uncanny: Accounting For Ghosts in Recent Indigenous Australian Experimental Media

This essay departs from Freud's 1919 essay, Das Unheimliche (The Uncanny), exploring the Indigenous uncanny instantiated in recent works that traffic in ghostly encounters, by well‐known Australian Indigenous artists: (1) Tracey Moffatt's Night Spirits photographs from her 2013 show, Spirit Landscapes, and The White Ghosts Sailed In, from her solo show, My Horizon (2017 Venice Biennale); (2) Warwick Thornton's 2013 experimental documentary, The Darkside, based on Indigenous ghost stories, and his 2015 show The Way of the Ngangkari. These works create a powerful aesthetic that acknowledges the displacement of Aboriginal people during European settlement as well as long‐standing ancestral connections.

Analysis of Differences in Uncanny Valley Phenomenon by Languages Using Social Media Data

Analysis of Differences in Uncanny Valley Phenomenon by Languages Using Social Media Data

Voices From The Uncanny Valley

Voices From The Uncanny Valley

The Spectrum of the Eyes and Its Transatlantic Travels

Based on the idea that the eyes are among the most vulnerable parts of the body and that the threat of losing them is a source of anxiety and fear, this essay discusses Hoffman’s famous tale «The Sandman». It also analyzes the Hoffmanian influence in two Spanish American tales from different times: the short story «Lina’s Eyes», published by the Peruvian Clemente Palma in 1901, and the novel «Blood in the Eye» by Chilean writer Lina Meruane, the first edition of which was published in 2012. A review of the Freudian concept of uncanny (das Unheimliche) and of interpretations of Hoffman’s text based on said concept is also made in parallel.

A Study on the "Uncanniness" Shown in Robot Dramas -Focus on &lt;I am Working&gt;, &lt;Sayonara&gt; and &lt;Three Sisters&gt; by Hirata Orija

A Study on the "Uncanniness" Shown in Robot Dramas -Focus on &lt;I am Working&gt;, &lt;Sayonara&gt; and &lt;Three Sisters&gt; by Hirata Orija

Zagadka Beroesa

The sketch concerns spiritualism and mediumship in the novel Faraon by Bolesław Prus. Object of analysis is especially Beroes, Chaldean magician and sage, who is one of the characters appearing in presented world. The main question in the aricle is, why Prus, positivist writer, decided to introduce to his novel such uncanny hero and such untypical problems.

The Double in Roxana: the Primitive and the Uncanny

The Double in Roxana: the Primitive and the Uncanny

Uncanny Academe

Uncanny Academe

The uncanny mediality of the photographic GIF

The uncanny mediality of the photographic GIF

The Materiality of the Uncanny

The Materiality of the Uncanny

Not Being and Blackness: Percival Everett and the Uncanny Forms of Racial Incorporation

Not Being and Blackness: Percival Everett and the Uncanny Forms of Racial Incorporation

Student satisfaction in higher education: settling up and settling down

Student satisfaction measures serve to provide a measure of ‘quality’ in the current audit culture of universities. This paper argues that the form of satisfaction valued within contemporary Higher Education amounts to a form of settling, where the primary aim is to settle the students’ expectations, and meet their needs. Drawing initially on the etymology of ‘satisfaction’, the paper then turns to the work of Martin Heidegger and his notion of the ‘uncanny’ (das Unheimliche), to discuss how we are ontologically unsettled. The uncanny will be discussed in relation to the Greek play Antigone, and illustrated with examples from the novel Stoner. In provoking angst or anxiety by leaving students ‘unsettled’ in terms of their thinking, this may open students up to a consideration of more ontological concerns – within their Higher Education but also in their lives more generally.