Das Unheimliche, миметичните машини и грешното разпознаване
The Uncanny, the Mimetic Machines and the Negative Anagnorisis

Author(s): Kamelia Spassova
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Psychology, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Psychoanalysis, Theory of Literature
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: unheimlich; uncanny valley; negative anagnorisis; misrecognition; unconscious repetition; Masahiro Mori; Ernst Jentsch
Summary/Abstract: The following paper examines the fluctuation of the concept of the uncanny between literature and psychoanalysis. In shaping the concept, both Ernst Jentsch in “On the Psychology of the Uncanny” (1906) and Sigmund Freud in “The Uncanny” (1919) carefully read Hoffmann’s fantastic stories of automata. While Freud develops his theory of the uncanny (concerning the automatism of unconscious repetition) by reading The Sandman, Jentsch dwells on Automata in his discussion of intellectual uncertainty. In this paper I also discuss anthropomorphic machines and the idea of the uncanny valley in robotics, concluding that the notion of the uncanny always involves negative anagnorisis, or misrecognition between inside/outside; human/automaton; animate/inanimate.

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