Reconsidering Freud’s Uncanny: The Coppola Perspective

Abstract

This essay reconsiders the Freudian notion of the Uncanny/Unheimlich by focusing on the attempt of the ego to project and maintain a coherent and consistent view of the world and of itself—an attempt that is intrinsically subverted by the very process of repetition that both conditions and disrupts all forms of identity and of identification.

Keywords

• Uncanny/Unheimlich
• anxiety
• projection
• signification
• repetition