FROM PAST TO PRESENT:

THE REPRESENTATION OF THE UNCANNY IN

ANIMATION

Freud’s perspective: Invalidating the uncanny effects in art and literature

“What has been repressed and what has been surmounted cannot be transposed on the uncanny in fiction.”

Are you SERIOUS?

Kristeva’s Perspective:

Validating the uncanny effects in art and literature

“Uncanniness is the destruction of the self, either remaining as a psychotic symptom or fit in as an opening towards the new.”

Defining The Uncanny: Causes and Factors

Freud: Uncanny defined as “a class of frightening things which can be shown to be repressed and which recurs.”

Kristeva: The Deconstruction of the selfFreud’s Factors which cause the uncanny:

The double

Castration Anxiety

Fear

The double as a technique used to create an uncanny feeling:

DOUBLE TROUBLE

Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror 1932

Double Trouble in animation:

Three films explored different elements of

The Uncanny.

CORPSE BRIDE: The features of Death

CORALINE: Issues of Identity

Pan’s Labyrinth: Nostalgia and Anxiety

1. The juxtaposition of scenes in the protagonist’s world creates the uncanny.

e.g. Real vs. Imaginary worlds

2. Where the animation (the medium itself)brings the inanimate to life

Rudd David., ‘An Eye for an Eye: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Questions of Identity,’ in Children’s Literature in Education, vol. 39, 2008

Creating the Uncanny feeling in animation

Dissecting the Protagonist's World

Barbara Creed’s: The Monstrous Feminine:

In all three films, the woman is the protagonist, who undertakes a journey to find her own sexual identity. Barabara Creed describes the monstrous feminine as the terrifying, horrific abject woman whose sexuality drives her to insanity

Corpse Bride:

Doubling of characters:

Emily and Victoria: Emily is everything that Victoria isn’t ‘

Emily as the monstrous female

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9boDkpEyvc

Features of the dead:The nostalgia emanating from Emily’s past, the doubling of Victor’s pet Scraps, and the doubling of the living are just some examples that demonstrate the uncanny though the character’s journey.

CoralineDoubling of characters: Features of Identity:

Mrs. Jones and Mr. Jones

Vs.

Other Mom and Other

Pan’s Labyrinth

Doubling of characters:

(features of Nostalgia And fear)

PALE MAN

VS.

CAPTAIN VIDAL

DOUBLING UP THE HOME?

The doubling in art and literature is a technique used to create the

uncanny effect.

The technique has been effective, and is solidified in history’s myths and legends. As long as stories continue, the uncanny will remain to play a part in people’s lives.