what does Uncanny mean, before looking into the word I had no idea whats so ever and only herd the word mentioned a few times. However for this task we were told to look into an extract of E.T.A Hoffmans "The Sandman" by Sigmund Freud which is also an answer to what Ernst Jentsch thought physiologically about the story.
Firstly The novel is situated around a boy called Nathaniel who Is told about the character "The Sandman" From this experience during his life he had alot of illneses and bad experiences emotionally, which all resulted from the attack on him as a child. He thought his father was getting attacked by man named Coppelius, ,which resulted in just 1 of his many illnesses. When attending University he falls in love with an automaton, Olympia, But after diagreements between both parties he becomes vastly ill again. He then decides it would be a better idea to marry Clara, which results in tragedy as one day while climbing a tower he starts seeing Coppelius again and Imagines Coppelius was Clara and results in him trying to push her off but sadly results in him falling to his death.
To me having looked more into the meaning of the Uncanny I can see how it could be described as Uncanny as the Nathaniel is believing in something supernatural yet we are not told of Nathaniels existince, yet we are lead to presume he is a human, maybe he's more alike to the sandman, or that he is obsessed and everything he loves he imagines is The sandman or that they are getting attacked, demonstarting the craziness he has.
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