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07: Kettle Logic and Family Secrets: The Uncanny, Part II

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Freudian Account of Self-Presentation

In both cases, it's marked in the first person, right? It's me doing thinking. And therefore, it's me who is. But what if we can't so evenly map those pronouns on to one another? Because the thinking in question isn't all the stuff that is you or they're sticking that's going on that's unconscious, right? So again, we could lean into the uncanny here where it's like the Cartesian thing and you're playing with a little ball of flax... Mm hmm. The eye becomes very uncanny.

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