Are the uncanny and the mysterious revelatory features of consciousness?


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Workshop # 17, The Uncanny, Series 10, (S8,11)
This event begins at 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.
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THIS WEEK: Freud’s work ‘The Uncanny’, and Bertrand Russell’s ‘Logic and Mysticism’, indicate that ‘mysteriousness’ and ‘the uncanny’ need not be forms of obfuscation, but ways of understanding. Heidegger, for example, presents ‘the uncanny’ as the unfamiliar, revealed in anxiety. Following these ideas, can we continue to examine how these qualities don’t obfuscate, but reveal the character of something that is immediately familiar, yet obscure. That is, our own reflective consciousness? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 1, Scn. iv.

Every week on Wednesday until January 14, 2026
Are the uncanny and the mysterious revelatory features of consciousness?