A spine-tingling uncertainty, a peculiar kind of frightening. Here I explore the uncanny creeping into life, art and literature, based on Freud’s ‘The Uncanny’.
Freud gives substance to and shows the difficulty of classifying this phenomenon: where something can be familiar yet strange at the same time. The essay is the guide to navigate the world of the uncanny. It is the start on an endless, road-less map.
This is not out and out horror but the seed of fear. A sliding of reality.
Thursday, 25 October 2012
The Sandman and the automaton
Mark Gatiss talks about The Sandman and the uncanny creeps into the BBC. Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vdxt5 More automatons. This one is beautiful and deeply disturbing, especially when she looks at you at the end.
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