Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" can be said to have defined, for our century, what literary criticism once called the Sublime. ████ ████████████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ██ █ ████████████ █████ ██ ███████████████████████ ██ ██████████ ██ █████ █████████ ██ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ████ █████████ ███████ ██ █████ ████████████ ██ ████████ ███ ██ ██ █████ ██████████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ████████████ ██ █████████ ████ ███ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███ ██ ██ ███████ █████ ████ ███ ███████ ██████ ███ ███████ ███ █████ █ ██████ ██ █████████ ███████████ ██ ███ █████████ ███ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ ██████████ █████ ██████ ███████████
Intro to Topic ·Freud's Sublime / uncanny
The Sublime is a sense of transcendence. We associate it with the uncanny. Mind over matter. Repression. I'm just going to pretend like I understand what Freud's talking about, like everyone else...
Bettelheim ·Fairy tales can be therapeutic for autistic children
Because a child's isolation, loneliness, and anxieties are addressed by fairy tales. When parents tell fairy tales to children, they are approving the fairy tales. Okay... wtf does this have to do with Freudian analysis? Are we just talking about something else now?
Bettelheim's Assumptions ·1. Children will interpret a story benignly and 2. Freudian interpretations will accurately represent children't interpretations
Passage Style
Single position
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Question Type
Implied
Other’s perspective
The reason Freud believed this is given immediately beforehand: he thought that in fairy tales, “everything is possible.” We can infer that Freud considered fairy tales so fantastical and far-fetched that the reader would believe anything could happen in them.
Unsupported. Freud’s explanation for why “nothing is incredible” in fairy tales isn’t about what kinds of people read them or how easy they are to read. Rather, his explanation is that in fairy tales, “everything is possible,” meaning they’re so fantastical and far-fetched that the reader believes anything could happen in them.
b
everything in fairy █████ ██ ██████ █████████
Unsupported. Freud’s explanation for why “nothing is incredible” isn’t that the stories are purely imaginary. In fact, nothing gives us Freud’s view on how much of fairy tales is imaginary. (Did he think fairy tales are 100% imaginary? Maybe he thought they’re based on true stories, but with a little imagination mixed in.) Instead, Freud’s explanation is that “everything is possible,” meaning that regardless of exactly how imaginary fairy tales might be, they let the reader believe that anything could happen.
Strongly supported. Freud believed that “nothing is incredible” because “everything is possible.” We can infer that Freud considered fairy tales so “fantastic” (i.e., in the realm of fantasy) and far-fetched that the reader would believe anything could happen in them.
d
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Anti-supported. Freud had a specific definition of “uncanny” and believed that fairy tales aren’t uncanny.
Unsupported. Freud’s explanation for why “nothing is incredible” in fairy tales doesn’t involve repression. Repression is instead Freud’s explanation for what creates feelings of the uncanny—and Freud thought that nothing about fairy tales is uncanny. Meanwhile, his explanation for why nothing seems incredible to readers of fairy tales is that, in fairy tales, “everything is possible.”
Difficulty
83% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%141
152
75%162
Analysis
Implied
Other’s perspective
Science
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
162
b
10%
163
c
83%
169
d
3%
159
e
3%
163
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