Category: Sigmund Freud

Critical Analysis of The Uncanny Theory by Sigmund Freud People are no strangers to the concept of family, what it means to play a role in a household in order to paint a portrait of normalcy for society. Yet, since the introduction of Charles Addams the Addams Family (1938), a family who delights in the…

Essay on The Uncanny: Analysis of Freudian Concept The uncanny is a Freudian concept1, entirely psychological in nature, where the unknown becomes eerily recognizable, both deplorable and desirable; this perverse attraction to the taboo results in either self or societal rejection. Within the Gothic, the uncanny simultaneously evokes feelings of terror and attraction, Morris citing…

Critical Analysis of The Uncanny Theory by Sigmund Freud People are no strangers to the concept of family, what it means to play a role in a household in order to paint a portrait of normalcy for society. Yet, since the introduction of Charles Addams the Addams Family (1938), a family who delights in the…

Essay on The Uncanny: Analysis of Freudian Concept The uncanny is a Freudian concept1, entirely psychological in nature, where the unknown becomes eerily recognizable, both deplorable and desirable; this perverse attraction to the taboo results in either self or societal rejection. Within the Gothic, the uncanny simultaneously evokes feelings of terror and attraction, Morris citing…