Mark Fisher's 'The Weird and the Eerie' Revisited with Matt Colquhoun
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Freud's Concept of Uncanny
Mark Fisher draws a distinction between the notion of strangeness in Freud's concept of the uncanny with his own in the concept of the weird as he puts it. In Freud, there's the uncanniness of doubles such as in the uncanny valley where multiplicities are doubling and create this unsettling effect depending on the proximity at which you are from those duplicates. The strange has this incommensurability between itself and the domestic says Fisher. And now we can occupy the outside from what was once a subordinate position in psychoanalysis to rupture the dominant center of the inside.
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