By John Jervis, Jo Collins
The uncanny is an adventure of disorientation, the place the realm unexpectedly turns out unusual, alienating or threatening. utilizing movie, literature, and views from cultural conception, this booklet explores the feel during which the uncanny could be a distinctively smooth event, the way in which those unnerving emotions and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the trendy international view and the safety of contemporary self-identity, simply because the latter may perhaps themselves be implicated within the construction of those reports as uncanny.
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We can move towards the figural by remembering that the project of modernity presupposes a model of the integrated, ‘rational’ subject with a necessary degree of ‘self-awareness’, and there are two categories of limitations to the latter: firstly, the inscrutability of motives, the possibility of systematically engendered self-misunderstanding, producing theories of the ‘recalcitrant subject’, both suffering from, yet also complicit in, its own mystification (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud); secondly, reflexively inadequate understanding, the impossibility of getting a grasp of the total picture when inside it, a perspective latent in structuralist and post-structuralist positionings of the subject in language and culture but not as often given explicit formulation.
What is clear is that he does not recognise it as in any sense his. So his tragedy is perhaps that he is not sufficiently the Romantic hero: he cannot perform the transition from the pre-modern to the modern that is implicit in the very possibility of Romanticism and the status, powers and limits of the modern imagination. He unwittingly embodies an important aspect of the uncanny itself, reminding himself, and us, of a world of portents, signs and powers that might once have been meaningfully reinforced as part of the cultural imaginary but has now become an atavistic return of something uncomprehended, strange.
Birth and rebirth, creator and created, representation and the represented: all reveal issues around legitimacy and the twin senses of ‘reproduction’, as reproducing/representing the real, and as procreation. How 30 Uncanny Presences closely should the result resemble the source? Should the ‘reproduction’ – in either sense – be indistinguishable from the ‘original’? It seems fair to say that when the two move ‘sufficiently’ close – and clearly the precise point cannot be specified in advance, if at all – then this produces a sense of the uncanny.