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- The difference between uncanny and abject lies in their focus: uncanny refers to the unsettling strangeness in the familiar, while abject describes something deeply repulsive and fundamentally rejected by human nature.
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The abject can be uncanny in the sense that we can recognize aspects in it, despite its being "foreign": a corpse, having fallen out of the symbolic order, creates abjection through its uncanniness [14] – creates a cognitive dissonance.
Feb 20, 2014 · In his The Uncanny, Sigmund Freud defines the uncanny as “Something that was long familiar with the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed” (Introduction xlii), and goes on to discuss how the uncanny deals specifically with “our own cultures past that haunts us.”
Abjection can be uncanny in that the observer can recognize something within the abject, possibly of what it was before it was 'cast out', yet be repulsed by what it is that caused it to be cast out to begin with.
Sep 2, 2010 · An encounter with giant insects on a gallery wall – insects made strange by the fact of their surprising scale – can be classified as an encounter with ‘the uncanny’, the third and final of the terminologies related to ‘the Gothic.’
Nov 1, 2023 · As exhibited by Twin Peaks, the uncanny can be described as the feeling we experience when a certain event, person, or place is strangely familiar, or when the familiar is made strange; this eerie feeling may unsettle or frighten us.
Aug 7, 2023 · The uncanny and the abject are concepts often linked with horror fiction, and they are regularly employed to induce a sensation of dread and discomfort in readers.
Freud‖s “uncanny” and Julia Kristeva‖s “abject”. The uncanny is a term that refers to a feeling of unease or discomfort that arises when something is familiar yet strange at the same time.
