%0 Journal Article
%T Familiarity and no Pleasure. The Uncanny as an Aesthetic Emotion.
%A Jan Niklas Howe
%J Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
%D 2010
%I Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
%X (E): The article explores whether the feeling of the uncanny can be regarded as an aesthetic emotion. It is centred around a reading of Freud¡¯s famous essay that is complemented by an exploration of Aristotle¡¯s theory of repetition and current psychological attempts to define aesthetic pleasure by means of repetition, namely, the hypotheses of ¡®mere exposure¡¯, ¡®prototypicality¡¯, and ¡®cognitive fluency¡¯. The article demonstrates that the notion of the uncanny problematises the very concept of aesthetic emotions.    (F): Cet article se demande si la sensation de l¡¯inqui¨¦tante ¨¦tranget¨¦ peut ¨ºtre consid¨¦r¨¦e comme une ¨¦motion esth¨¦tique. Il propose une nouvelle lecture du c¨¦l¨¨bre article de Freud, qu¡¯il approfondit en faisant appel ¨¤ la th¨¦orie aristot¨¦licienne de la r¨¦p¨¦tition ainsi qu¡¯aux tentatives de la psychologie contemporaine de d¨¦finir le plaisir esth¨¦tique en termes de r¨¦p¨¦tition ¨Chypoth¨¨ses souvent rattach¨¦es aux concepts de   influence par contact  ,   prototypicalit¨¦   et   aisance cognitive  . L¡¯article d¨¦montre que l¡¯inqui¨¦tante ¨¦tranget¨¦ probl¨¦matise la notion m¨ºme d¡¯¨¦motion esth¨¦tique.
%K Aesthetic Emotion
%K Cognitive Fluency
%K Freud
%K Mere Exposure
%K Prototypicality
%K Repetition
%K Uncanny
%U http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/101