Uncanny Aspects In Beowulf
Uncanny aspects
Sense of strangeness, of genuinely enigmatic forces pervades theory of death instinct and repetition compulsion.
Uncanny= malicious careless, unreliable, mysterious, strange, dangerous. From german unheimlich. Can also mean concealed
Phenomenon of the “double” = considered identical because they look alike p.940
Mental processes where both possess knowledge, feelings and experience
The feelings of repulsion associated with the uncanny are not unlike the emotions of the able-bodied when they are visualizing the disabled. Freud notes that the terror or repulsion of the uncanny is ambivalent is found precisely in its relation to and yet deviance from the familiar. What is uncanny can be related to disability and is made clear when Freud cites specifically disememered limbs etc. as unheimlich. What is uncanny about dismembrement seems to beth familiarity of the body part that is then made unheimlich by its severing.The familiarity of a body as a whole is based on......
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