06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Uncanny and the Unconscious
Dan O'Brien: We want to talk about the uncanny because it's an awesome essay. It is a really clear in some ways way of thinking about how do explicitly psychoanalytic concepts help us do cultural criticism? But I also think that for you in particular, like as we're thinking about like this podcast and like building out a kind of theoretical toolkit, that the uncanny is like an interesting way into talking about the unconscious. That's exactly right. The most important cycle on what a concept you could probably argue from which all these other ones flow is this idea of something that you could call the unconscious,. That's the number one of the top 10.
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