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Psychoanalytic Reading of Tall Shadows of the Wind (1979): Freud’s Uncanny in Iranian Cinema [PDF]
Sigmund Freud’s paper “The Uncanny”, written in 1919, is a psychoanalytic study that explores the feelings humans experience when they encounter unfamiliar, frightening, or even eerie phenomena.
Maryam Darabi, Alireza Sayyad
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“Always the same stairs, always the same room”: the uncanny architecture of Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight [PDF]
Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight (1939) is a novel that returns obsessively to the uncanny architecture of the Parisian hotel, through providing insight into the deracinated experiences of protagonist Sasha Jansen, a woman existing at the peripheries ...
Zimmerman, Emma
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Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds [PDF]
This paper brings together the theory of the uncanny as it emerges in cultural theory, with an understanding of the uncanniness and troublesomeness seen to be inherent in certain understandings of teaching and learning in higher education.
Bayne, Sian
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Metamorphoses of the Uncanny in the Short-Story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
This study analyzes several metamorphoses of the uncanny that the short-story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl thematizes. The Freudian notion of the uncanny is connected with the definitions of the fantastic according to Tzevtan Todorov and of the maternal ...
Jacques Sohier
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Brass Art: A house within a house within a house within a house [PDF]
Performances from Brass Art (Lewis, Mojsiewicz, Pettican), captured at the Freud Museum, London, using Kinect laser scanning and Processing, reveal an intimate response to spaces and technologies.
Lewis, Chara +2 more
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Trauma e repetição: O sinistro e suas formas literárias em três momentos da nossa história
This article discusses the problematics of trauma, memory formation and the diverse forms of the uncanny (unheimlich) found in prison writings by Everardo Dias, Graciliano Ramos, Dyonelio Machado and Flávio Tavares, referring to different moments of ...
Daniela Birman
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Taking issue with Sigmund Freud’s premise on the subject, this essay seeks alternately to inquire into, challenge, and broaden our understanding of the uncanny.
Umar Shehzad
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The Gaze as constituent and annihilator
This article aims to join the contemporary effort to promote a psychoanalytic renaissance within cinema studies, post Post-Theory. In trying to shake off the burden of the 1970s film theory's distortion of the Lacanian Gaze, rejuvenating it with ...
Mats Carlsson
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PAST EFFACED. PAST RECOVERED. DREAMS AND MEMORY CONTROL IN RECENT DYSTOPIAN CINEMA [PDF]
Utopia is considered to be a perfect state, a place where all desires and longings can be finally fulfilled. Dystopia is frequently described as a failed utopia, a place which becomes an expression of our deepest fears and concerns.
Katarzyna Baran
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Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet +2 more
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