Uncanny
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Freud's Uncanny
The uncanny is a disquieting recurrence of the familiar. It's not just like, death drive is always uncanny, right? Like there's some, there's a need for the terminological distinction,. otherwise it seems like Freud shouldn't have written it. I think in horror film, I don't know that there's a better example than the twins in the Shining, right? Yeah. This is of course like, this is a huge thing in horror, is invoking the uncanny - and it's different from how it plays out in films such as The Shining.
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