Familiarity and no Pleasure. The Uncanny as an Aesthetic Emotion.

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Main Author: Jan Niklas Howe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2010-09-01
Series:Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
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Online Access:http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/101
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Summary:<p class="Default" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Abstract (E): </span></strong><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">The article explores whether the feeling of the uncanny can be regarded as an aesthetic emotion. It is centred around a reading of Freud’s famous essay that is complemented by an exploration of Aristotle’s theory of repetition and current psychological attempts to define aesthetic pleasure by means of repetition, namely, the hypotheses of ‘mere exposure’, ‘prototypicality’, and ‘cognitive fluency’. The article demonstrates that the notion of the uncanny problematises the very concept of aesthetic emotions. </span></span></span></p><p class="Default" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="mso-ansi-language: FR;" lang="FR">Abstract (F): </span></strong><span style="mso-ansi-language: FR;" lang="FR">Cet article se demande si la sensation de l’inquiétante étrangeté peut être considérée comme une émotion esthétique. Il propose une nouvelle lecture du célèbre article de Freud, qu’il approfondit en faisant appel à la théorie aristotélicienne de la répétition ainsi qu’aux tentatives de la psychologie contemporaine de définir le plaisir esthétique en termes de répétition –hypothèses souvent rattachées aux concepts de « influence par contact », « prototypicalité » et « aisance cognitive ». L’article démontre que l’inquiétante étrangeté problématise la notion même d’émotion esthétique. </span></span></span></p>
ISSN:1780-678X