06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Uncanny Valley
There's also this thing that I feel like we haven't hit on, but that's really crucial to Freud's concept of the uncanny, which is of doubles. And that can be like in stories where there's like doppelgangers, for instance. This sort of the doubling and then the doubling of the doubling. Daniel: There's an uncanniness to like looking at like Kim Kardashian is a great example of the uncanny. The person who originated the idea of the uncanny valley is not drawing on Freud.
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