COMM 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sigmund Freud, Simulacrum, Magical Thinking
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The relation of likeness between reality and its representation. Tom gunning"s article (cid:396)re-newing old technologies(cid:397) investigates a cultural history of the film medium-from its invention and novelty to a daily habit and routine. John onians recognizes 4 stages of a universal reaction to a novelty such as a new medium: striking experience, physical paralysis, learning as mental reaction, new action. In cultural history of the media this cycle from astonishment to routine is directly related to the discourses created around the events, inventors, technologies. The discourses help us learn how to become amazed once again. Uncanny: that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar (sigmund freud) Technological uncanny-technological doppelgangers (techniques of representation which create simulacra so intense they appear as to double to original. From its very beginnings the film medium was seen at the intersection of two opposite functions:
