John Jervis
Biographic Data
| ID | 9162933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Jervis |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Jervis |
| SIGNATURE | JERVIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Uncanny Presences
Fascinated by the paintings wherein Constantin Guys attempted to capture the essence of the modern, Baudelaire wrote: ‘This seems to be the fear of not going fast enough, of letting the phantom escape before the synthesis has been extracted from it and recorded...’. 1 What is the status of ‘phantom’ here? Bronfen’s remark that the uncanny may well occur when there is ‘an effacement of the distinction between literal and figural’ 2 is suggestive, …
Uncanny Modernity
This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern w
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[In his famous essay on the uncanny, first published in 1919, 2 Sigmund Freud begins by complaining that aesthetics has hitherto not paid much attention to the aberrant and the repulsive. This complaint is also an expression of anticipatory pleasure on the part of Freud the writer, in so far as the uncanny in particular has no ‘literature’ with which to contend — but he has to admit that there is one exception, namely the essay translated below. …
Uncanny Modernity
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Uncanny Presences
Fascinated by the paintings wherein Constantin Guys attempted to capture the essence of the modern, Baudelaire wrote: ‘This seems to be the fear of not going fast enough, of letting the phantom escape before the synthesis has been extracted from it and recorded...’. 1 What is the status of ‘phantom’ here? Bronfen’s remark that the uncanny may well occur when there is ‘an effacement of the distinction between literal and figural’ 2 is suggestive, …
Uncanny Modernity
This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern w
Document
[In his famous essay on the uncanny, first published in 1919, 2 Sigmund Freud begins by complaining that aesthetics has hitherto not paid much attention to the aberrant and the repulsive. This complaint is also an expression of anticipatory pleasure on the part of Freud the writer, in so far as the uncanny in particular has no ‘literature’ with which to contend — but he has to admit that there is one exception, namely the essay translated below. …
Uncanny Modernity
Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Uncanny (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · Modernity (2 works) · Uncanny valley (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work)