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Uncanny
Why Theory
The Uncanny Valley
The uncanny valley is a very normative way of evaluating, right? Like it presents, and even if you look at the chart of the uncanny valley, it presents, what does it say? Like healthy, healthy body. That's the thing that you want to get to. And I think once you take the idea of castration as the starting point where the way the body is constituted as a body, then there's no such thing as a healthy body. So I think Freud, it's not that, oh, we can, no, the uncanny actually, it does it. It's like he thinks Hoffman's great because he actually does successfully represent the uncanny. Right. The whole point
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