
06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Uncanny
"I feel like I'm like the odd person out here this week because I'm very interested in this essay, but the concept of the uncanny is not one that has ever particularly moved me," he says. "It's much more upsetting to be thrown into a feeling without knowing the thing that is throwing you into a throwing are kind of weird language." He adds: "You don't know the source of it. It's like fear in search of an object or whether it's that negative, apprehensive dread looking for an object versus oh, here is the thing that I'm afraid of"
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