Freud The Uncanny

I have been doing a lot of research on Freuds essay The Uncanny. You too can read it here

http://people.emich.edu/acoykenda/uncanny1.htm

It is basically an exploration of what causes fear of an object. Freud explains that most people have the misconception of thinking that it is unfamiliar objects that cause fear. However it is mainly familiar objects but placed in an unfamiliar way or setting. It is the way that something is familiar yet foreign all at the same time which results in a feeling of uncomfortably strange.

In this essay Freud talks a lot of a man called  Ernest Jentsch. Jentsch was the first person to explore the idea of the uncanny in his 1906 essay, On the Psychology of the Uncanny.  Here Jentsch explains that what is most uncanny are objects that look alive even though they are inanimate objects.

I think this has something to do with my choice of using a taxidermy animal in my work.  There was something interesting to me about using an object that looks alive but is dead.