What is The Uncanny? A brief history and examples of Artworks and Media

[@tiffanyferg]

This was so fascinating! I’d never really learned what the uncanny was actually about prior to this. Also this is perfect for Halloween spookiness!!

[@CamiiW123]

Thanks! Glad you liked it! Yeah, it's a really interesting idea, I just wish there were some more theories about the uncanny that were a little bit less castration-heavy, haha

[@yeejules]

I read Freud’s work on this for class and it all reminded me a lot of Coraline. Loss of eyes, animism, dolls, the confusion in always returning to same place (ie when you’re lost in the woods), the double, repetition… it’s all there in Coraline

[@nollanoodle5697]

The shining (1980) also includes all aspects of uncanny in a masterful way. I watched your video so i can complete my essay on it. Thanks alot!

[@CamiiW123]

Glad you found my video helpful!

[@GeneralBongmeister]

I think a good uncanny piece of art would be "everywhere at the end of time" by the caretaker, it's a set of music for 6 hours and it's based of the stages of dementia, the further you go into the series, the more distorted the images and music gets

[@GeneralBongmeister]

Another uncanny piece of media, is the backroom, its confusing to explain but I can try over simplify it so my fingers dont get tired of typing The back rooms is a universe based on sets of floors, it is believed you enter it by clipping out the universe, the back rooms have several floors, many floors suggest the character is trapped in a sort of video game, such as the idea of clipping out of reality, something common in video games as people like clipping through walls to skip larger amounts of time.

[@CamiiW123]

wow, i haven't heard about that and it sounds really interesting. I'm gonna have to check it out, thanks for the tip!

[@888men]

This is what terrified me as a young child. I was traumatised by watching Coraline in the cinema and had frequent night terrors. An episode of doctor who also frightened me. where an Alien spoke through a women on televisionsin the 1950s. and leaving victims with no face. This video sums up why the uncanny was my main source of fear.

[@CamiiW123]

Yeah, it's a very special type of fear that is hard to explain, yet so many people seem to have felt it at one point or another!

[@kozy15x]

Great video! The uncanny, particularly Bellmer, is quite an influence on my own art. I love your take and hope you continue making content!

[@CamiiW123]

Thank you so much! I would like to make a video about liminal spaces, so hopefully I'll get some time for that soon

[@Amicallea21]

Girl, you are saving my Gothic Seminar grade- tysm for this fun and informative video!

[@CamiiW123]

Haha thank you so much! Glad you found the video helpful :) Also, a Gothic seminar sounds cool as hell!

[@mahabubble4795]

Ahh, what a brilliant video! Your research has been invaluable in helping me neatly summarise things for a recent philosophy assessment on the uncanny! Thank you so much :)

[@CamiiW123]

Glad my video was helpful to you! :D

[@myrtostamatopoulou1987]

Congrats!!! This is an excellent video, absolutely professional! Helped me a lot in my research about the uncanny and it's relation to postmortem photography.

[@CamiiW123]

Thanks so much for your comment! I'm glad it helped you with your research :)

[@Cheez5309]

very insightful! subscribed and looking forward to listening to more

[@tetsudou7220]

Haha, I thought maybe you were swedish when you said "Hans Bellmer" :) Great video, this subject will always be fascinating and mysterious to me - and I love that you talked about das unheimlich and not just the uncanny valley. Another nice example is the scene at Wendys from Mulholland Drive where dream and reality merge and a familiar sorrounding gets slightly off because of this and the repitition of the dream.

[@CamiiW123]

I am Swedish indeed! Some people are a bit perplexed with my accent because I learnt from American TV growing up but have also spent many years living in Ireland, so it's a bit of a mix! And really great example!

[@glaucoverso]

I loved your video! I find it while I was researching about "The Uncanny" topic because as an artist I think it relates a lot with what I try to do in my Illustrations... I just started my own channel to show my "uncanny art".. I will try to use all these information to have ideas for my next illustrations! Thank you!

[@CamiiW123]

That's great! I'm an artist too (currently doing my final year in art college) and I've also used a lot of the ideas about the uncanny in my own work! Thanks so much for your comment

[@amy3515]

Enjoyed this so much, thanks! This kind of subject is so interesting, 📖 it almost feels as if there isn’t any true closure for it, however much we wonder 💭 (which is why it’s fun I think!)

[@CamiiW123]

Glad you liked it! Yeah it's a very interesting concept and its an emotion that can be triggered by so many different things for different people. It would be really interesting to get some more modern studies of it!

[@emmagurley2496]

thank you queen, this helped a lot for my final project on the uncanny :)

[@CamiiW123]

Glad it was helpful :)

[@laciekinder8429]

Awesome video! You did an amazing job! It really helped me learn a lot!

[@CamiiW123]

Thanks a lot! Glad you liked the video

[@OminousMoss]

I just been trying to get a better understanding since I been wanting to make uncanny art or somewhat creepy also general interest so this was a cool video

[@Anonymous-ud4sf]

Hello, thanks for this video. Just wondering what books you're referring to/referencing with the information you included and spoke about in this vid?

[@CamiiW123]

Hi, I think these were the majority of the sources. I think there might be some missing for some of the artworks, except for Bellmer Freud, Sigmund, The Uncanny, 2007, New York Grant, Catherine, Bellmer's Legs: Adolescent Pornography and Uncanny Eroticism in the Photographs of Hans Bellmer and Anna Gaskell, 2010 Jentsch, Ernst, on the Psychology of the uncanny, 1906 Lichtenstein, Therese, Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer, London, 2001 Royle, Nicholas, The Uncanny, New York, 2003 Taylor, Sue, Hans Bellmer: the Anatomy of Anxiety, Cambridge, 2002

[@tommasomonaci3381]

I was already fammiliar with the comcept of the uncanny but nonetheless I've learn new stuff about it. Keep up the good work!

[@CamiiW123]

It's such an interesting concept! So glad you got to learn a bit more about it :)

[@dalafhasan3484]

A very deep explanation, many THANX

[@CamiiW123]

Thanks yourself! :)

[@Hegemon1984]

Damn, Konami straight-up copied Hans Bellmer's mannequin for Silent Hill 2 lol

[@CamiiW123]

Yeah, they sure do bear an uncanny resemblance! ;)

[@devilinme7231]

i love your vibe girlll

[@NOORIraq-f3n]

That is really helpful, Am studying uncanny which is part of my doctorate materials of psychology. Thanks

[@CamiiW123]

That's great! Both my sister and my brother are working on their degrees in psychology too!

[@NOORIraq-f3n]

@@CamiiW123 cool! I wish them good luck

[@PosledniElian]

So underrated!

[@danielledegeorge2129]

Castration is akin to having your virility, your life essence, cut off. It's a very apt metaphor for being made spiritually blind and impotent, which is why he connects it with sight. PS- my dreams tend to be more truthful than reality, which itself has become uncanny because my eyes are opened to the unheimlich... what was once familiar is now upside-down. Do I dare say, in an unbelieving world, that I pray to dream the truth because reality has become so twisted?

[@jsbg122]

Great video and excellent examples.

[@CamiiW123]

thank you!

[@dareobell4297]

Excellent video, thank you for the explanation.

[@CamiiW123]

Thank you very much! :)

[@falkuistion]

inhaling my video essay because of how uncanny this is

[@privateart]

THANK YOU GOOD JOB.

[@yin-sin]

Leave it to Freud who makes anything and everything about sexual organs dispute the fact that said organs aren’t mentioned

[@chivonfortney1656]

I’m hanging on the end of my seat❤!!

[@elizabethsantiago8639]

Yaa 😊

[@EvilPanda187]

Am I even here right now???? 😆

[@ShortyTW867]

It is said that masterbation causes blindness...I mean, not that I would know anything about that :)

[@harperisntcool8031]

Us is suuuuchhhh a good movie

[@piedoge5976]

is this scary ?

[@CamiiW123]

Not really scary, there's some creepy imagery and stuff like that. It's just an explanation about what the "uncanny" means and where it comes from.

[@piedoge5976]

@@CamiiW123 Oh ok

[@mememan3608]

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[@CamiiW123]

haha if only I wasn't already spoken for

[@mememan3608]

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[@leticiallime]

9:24 oh it’s the silent hill 2 monster :o

[@tysontschauner6142]

It was good other than that