06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I
Ordinary Unhappiness
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Freud's Claim That the Intensity of the Taboo Is a Transformed Version of the Fear That the Dead Are Going to Come Back and Take Revenge on Us
When the queen died, that was- You're not supposed to say. Like, I'm happy the old bad is dead. Right? And Freud's claim here is that the intensity of that taboo is a transformed version of the fear that the dead are going to come back and take revenge on us if we disavow them. Is this why I don't have an experience of the uncanny? Because like, not even a little tiny piece of me believes in ghosts. Well, I don't even feel like the tiniest little like tingling of any of that.
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