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differences (2021) 32 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Unheimlich ) and its Romantic genealogy productive. The uncanny effect, as Cooppan points out, makes differences in the very act of repetition, but more importantly it also temporalizes those differences. “The literary zone of ‘what is like-but-unlike ’ marks out a strikingly similar space to the uncanny’s...
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differences (1995) 7 (3): 109–140.
Published: 01 November 1995
... of a boundary between the real and the phantasmatic. The uncanny effect is produced by the uncertainty about certain objects or events-are they real or imagined, animate or inanimate, alive or dead? As examples, Freud includes "dismembered limbs, a severed head, a hand cut off at the wrist feet which dance...
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 47–87.
Published: 01 May 2006
... is effaced.” This effacement contributes
“not a little to the uncanny effect attaching to magical practices. The
infantile element in this, which also dominates the minds of neurotics, is
the over-accentuation of psychical...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 259–266.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s Medusa (1596–97) retains its intimate and uncanny power to shock no matter how often one has gazed at it. Portraying the Gorgon at the very moment Perseus decapitates her, it presents a portrait not of her, but of her image in the mirror of the hero’s shield, gazing out...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and that, accordingly, they are effective on human beings by force of the historical truth of their content” ( Freud, Moses 58 ). This passage from Moses and Monotheism , Freud’s notoriously difficult last major work, offers a startlingly succinct account of the core argument. Written in the mid-late 1930s—toward...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 116–133.
Published: 01 September 2017
... walk between the towers of the Cathedral of Nôtre-Dame had a similar effect upon the cathedral and the city of Paris. This Nôtre-Dame escapade made a deep impression on me, and I continued to think about it over the years that followed. Each time I walked past Nôtre-Dame, I kept seeing...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 20–44.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the image and the viewer to collapse. Rey Chow’s essay “Walter Benjamin’s Love Affair with Death” links the relationship between a reproduction and its viewer to the idea of allegory: the reproduction allows “a certain uncanny effect of the conjuring of reality,” a simultaneous convergence of life...
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differences (1999) 11 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 May 1999
...
experiences, memories, scenes, and structures. Sexuality becomes the
primary source of the psychological disorders that create uncanny effects
in the subjects who are governed, and produced, by desire. In its effects,
desire resembles...
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differences (2005) 16 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., and Technological Innovation . Philadelphia: u of Pennsylvaniap, 1998 . Freud, Sigmund. “The Uncanny.” 1919. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . Trans. and ed. James Strachey. Vol. 17 . London: Hogarth, 1973 . 217 -56. 24 vols. 1953-74. ____.“The Interpretation...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to rebel against them,” claims Lem in his polemic with Todorov. “What could be more tempting than to write what theory prohibits?” ( Microworlds 214 ). We may be a bit lost in translation here, but still the node of the uncanny and the marvelous in this “artistic effect” is quite obvious...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 102–133.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and memorializations of the Baader-Meinhof story in German film and literature reveal about the lingering effects of a traumatogenic authoritarianism at the heart of German Oedipal relations. What is the nature of the afterlife of the authoritarian primal and social bonds that flowered so profusely within National...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 209–217.
Published: 01 May 2010
...”:
This time it is the poor bloke, again taken aback, whose behavior
is now “explained” by the powerful effects of indisputable mat-
ters of fact: “You, ordinary fetishists, believe you are free...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 212–248.
Published: 01 July 1994
... of a certain impossibility at its heart, of the contradictions which constitute it: life/death, being/non-being, visibility/invisibility, speech/silence, difference/ sameness, knowledge/ignorance, coming out/mimicry. Passing is the effect of a certain affect, an uncanny feeling of uncertainty about...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 33–57.
Published: 01 December 2018
... toward the structure it already belongs to, rather than also toward the world that extends infinitely outward, to the uncanny strange and beyond. We might conclude something similar about the core of Irigaray’s complaint against language and logos, which I think is not ultimately about logos per se...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 140–167.
Published: 01 December 2011
... a visual origin or point of reference. The inherent uncanniness of the voice—whether it be the dog’s absent master, man’s distant lover, or woman’s internalized other—is normalized by digital technologies such as MP3 compression. Depending on the conditions of production, distribution, and reception...
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differences (1999) 11 (2): 204–227.
Published: 01 September 1999
... Club and Other Movies Rail against Our Culture of Consumption.” Rpt. in San Francisco Chronicle Datebook . 7 Nov. 1999 . 58 . “tv Decorating.” House and Garden . Nov. 1999 : 27 –30. Vidler, Anthony. The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 1992...
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differences (2006) 17 (2): 113–131.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Head.” 1940 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 18 . 273 -74. ____. “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.” 1905 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 7 . 303 -10. ____. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. 1905 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 7 . 123 -243. ____. “The `Uncanny.'” 1919...
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differences (2007) 18 (1): 53–86.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of uncanny vocal effects,
hauntings, channelings of the dead, and other ghostly activities.7
But all these modern media technologies and their ghosts ride
on the back of the much older primal and enabling technological...
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 20–46.
Published: 01 May 2006
... as to effectively sustain its ideological power. I will present
two recent cases revolving around the public circulation of “scandalous”
images that add the question of gender difference to this dialectical for-
mula: in the first case...
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differences (1995) 7 (3): 1–23.
Published: 01 November 1995
... in their own "imperial" culture, re-enter the field of critical vision.3 Even if we regard current legal abortion practice as medically, ethically, and politically justified (as I do), and thus as effectively disconnected from these archaic precedents, they may entail a certain lingering affective residue...
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