Blog 6

Uncanny is a concept of Sigmund Freud; he found the answer of uncanniess; it means that something can be familiar and it is uncomfortable strange; it often creates cognitive dissonance within the experiencing subject. Freud focused dream, anxiety, mentality, and different shades of meaning. He realized that “everything should to have remained secret and hidden but has come to light.”
C.G Jung is a famous psychologist; he believes that shadow is a part of the unconscious mind; it has weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts. He believes that everybody has shadow, and it was embodied in the individual conscious mind; it also is a illusion between ego and the real world. Jung pointed that shadow is the seat of creativity and the shadow may appear in the dreams and visions in various forms. C.G. Jung also analyzes that feeling of gender and race or role of shadow depend on personal individual mind and experience than collective unconscious mind. He also said that interactions with the shadow indicated someone’s intensions or conflicting desire. His suggestion is making up the layer of shadow; this bottom layer of shadow is Jung’s collective unconscious.
“The Uncanny” by Sigmund Freud and “The Shadow” by C.G. Jung is making connections between reading and the theme of course is fantasy world and real world. It is depending on human being’s conscious mind and unconscious mind; it’s a part of the mentality; it appears based on super ego, ego, stereotype, and archetype. I think that “The Uncanny” and “ The Shadow are same direction goals for the readers.