{"id":83296,"date":"2022-12-16T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T09:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azbuki.bg\/?p=83296"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T09:46:20","slug":"freud-and-jentsch-read-hoffmanns-uncanny-automata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/press.azbuki.bg\/en\/uncategorized\/freud-and-jentsch-read-hoffmanns-uncanny-automata\/","title":{"rendered":"Freud and\u00a0Jentsch read Hoffmann\u2019s Uncanny Automata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kamelia Spassova<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Sofia University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2022-6-7KS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/bel2022-6-7KS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract.<\/strong> The following paper examines the elaboration of the concept of uncanny between literature and psychoanalysis. In shaping the concept, both Ernst Jentsch in \u201cOn the Psychology of the Uncanny\u201d (1906) and Sigmund Freud in \u201cThe Uncanny\u201d (1919) carefully read Hoffmann&#8217;s fantastic stories of automata. While Freud develops his theory of the uncanny (concerning the automatism of unconscious repetition) by reading \u201cThe Sandman\u201d, Jentsch dwells on \u201cAutomata\u201d in his approach on intellectual uncertainty. In this paper I also discuss anthropomorphic machines and the idea of uncanny valley in robotics, concluding that the notion of uncanny always involves negative anagnorisis, or misrecognition between inside\/outside; human\/automaton; animate\/inanimate.<br \/>\n<em>Keywords:<\/em> uncanny; automaton; Doppelg\u00e4nger; negative anagnorisis; Jentsch; Freud; E.T.A. 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