In "The ominous", Freud deals with an area of \u200b\u200bthe aesthetics of the literature on the subject does not. This is because the aesthetic is often interested in the beautiful and sexy rather than disgusting and embarrassing. This area is that of the uncanny, which belongs to the order of the terrifying and causing anguish and horror.
Freud defines the uncanny as that variety of the scary going back to the old and familiar. However, not everything old and familiar becomes ominous. Freud asks "How can it bears ominous family [...]?"
Among the meanings of the German word 'heimlich' are:
- The familiar, old,
- The clandestine, concealed, hidden.
The word 'unheimlich' is the opposite of 'heimlich' in the first sense, ie something new and unexpected. 'Unheimlich' is all that was meant to remain secret and came to light. Then, by the ambivalence of the word 'heimlich' coincides with its opposite, 'unheimlich. "
One source of the ominous feeling, would be the children's wishes and beliefs . For example, desire that the dolls come to life.
Another source is the presence of double . Twice, comes from a security against the burial of the self and is born on the primary narcissism which governs child mental life. After this phase, changes the sign twice (if an assurance of survival becomes an agent of death) but his performance is not buried along with that narcissism but takes on new content as it develops the self. Inside the self forms a body that is responsible for self-observation and self-criticism and that, therefore, may preclude the other. This becomes noticeable as a moral conscience. This instance takes as an object to the rest of me. Twice the ominous character goes back to primitive times. The double becomes a terrifying figure in the same way that the gods turned into demons.
The repetition of the same is another source of ominous feeling. This ominous, it follows from the mental life of children. It feels like something ominous able to remember the interior of repetition compulsion.
Freud notes that the uncanny is that which returns causing distress (regardless of whether it was originally anxious or had other affection.) If this is the nature of the uncanny , one can understand that the uses of language to misrepresent the 'heimliche' (Family) by its opposite, 'unheimlich' as \u200b\u200bthis ominous is not new, but familiar and old mental life that was suppressed . That is, the uncanny is what was destined to remain unseen and came to light.
Bibliography:
- Freud, S. (1992) Collected Works. The uncanny (1919) Volume XVII. 2nd ed. Buenos Aires: Amorrortu.
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