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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"unheimlich"”.
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The Trace of Everyday Life: The Interpretation of Déjà vu in Fine Art Practice
… displacement associated with déjà vu and the unheimlich (i.e. uncanny/ unhomely). My practice, and its theoretical contextualisation, address ideas that are manifest in the philosophical and psychological literature on the connection between déjà vu and the unheimlich, particularly in …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… are the interconnectivity between home and the ‗unheimlich‘ and homesickness, the blurred boundaries between the static and the mobile with regards to ‗home‘, and the continuous quest for new frontiers.
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
… psychoanalytic works on the (mainly Freudian) unheimlich, to re-examine them in transatlantic- and reception-studies frameworks. The thesis argues that because Poe portrays his American identity as multiple, marginal and fundamentally transatlantic, Poe’s place in the canons of American …
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Between Homes: Examining the notion of the uncanny in art practice and its relationship to post-colonial identity and contemporary society in Taiwan
… explore Sigmund Freud's theory of the 'uncanny' (unheimlich) and argue that in contemporary society, experiencing the 'uncanny' is common, while it is nearly impossible to obtain the feeling of 'being at home'. This phenomenon is, shown to be present in art, film and literature. My research asks …
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Locus suspectus: sobre lo siniestro en la arquitectura de Gordon Matta-Clark y Alfredo Jaar
… que aporta Freud en el ensayo Lo siniestro (Das unheimlich, 1919), el latinismo locus suspectus para definir un territorio vasto y difuso entre el arte y la arquitectura. Contexto en que la obra visceral y ambivalente de Matta-Clark y, por otro lado, la belleza sublime de las instalaciones …
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'Existential migration': voluntary migrants' experiences of not being-at-home in the world
… within belonging, openness to experiences of the unheimlich, and the valuing of difference and foreignness as stimulus to personal awareness and broadening perspectives. Among the co-researchers there is a marked preference for the strange over the familiar or conventional. There are also themes …
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Empathising With Animals: Non-Human Subjectivity In Documentary Film
… that render the image otherworldly or unheimlich; avoiding didactic voice-over to stimulate imagination; and to allow for poetic or artistic interventions, rather than attempting to suggest non-human subjectivity with strictly observational or scientific means. Ultimately, the thesis …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
The aesthetic phenomenon of the uncanny in literature and art is a spatial and gendered aesthetic concept, which is expressed in the spatial characteristics of a literary or photographic narrative. The intention of this thesis is to evaluate the entanglement of the uncanny, space, domesticity and …