06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Uncanny and Anxiety
What you find uncanny is pegged to what you find normal. The Roomba becomes uncanny when a Russian hacker patches into it and starts speaking to you, demanding your social security number through the Roomba. Freud's argument is that that anxiety that you feel is actually a transformed version of an other anxiety which has been repressed. That these are all kind of on another level of abstraction can be thought about as like slippages between other categories or states.
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