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On the multiple interpretations of "the uncanny" in Sigmund Freud: Review of the book «On Freud’s“ The Uncanny ”»

Portada del libro On Freud’s“ The Uncanny ”

Abstract

The text submitted for review reflects on the different manifestations of “the uncanny”, based on Sigmund Freud’s 1919 text with the same name. As a general rule, the uncanny is the experience of “the familiar” in “the un-familiar” that, stated in philosophical terms, constitutes in the text a phenomenology of otherness in fiction and reality.

Keywords

Freud, psychoanalysis, uncanny, otherness, instinct theory, the unconscious

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Author Biography

Arian Rodríguez Benítez

Doctorante en Filosofía, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas Luis Villoro Toranzo, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Michoacán, México.


References

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