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La atracción por lo siniestro: del 'horror plácido' al 'más allá del principio de placer'
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[spa] La intención de este artículo es la de trazar un recorrido por los principales intentos filosófico-literarios ¿con sus derivas de carácter más psicológico¿ para comprender y analizar la atracción hacia lo espantoso, desde la Ilustración con el paradigmático «horror plácido» de Joseph Addison hasta el texto que podemos considerar fundacional en la teoría sobre lo siniestro: el ensayo bajo este título redactado por Sigmund Freud en 1919, íntimamente relacionado con su análisis contemporáneo de los principios de placer, realidad y la pulsión de muerte. Se tendrán en consideración, asimismo, algunos de los antecedentes y derivaciones posteriores a estos dos momentos clave para la comprensión de la atracción del ser humano por lo siniestro.
[eng] The aim of this paper is to trace a way through the main philosophical and literary attempts, with their drifts of a more psychological nature, to understand and to analyze the attraction towards the uncanny. The point of departure is the Enlightenment with the paradigmatic «pleasing kind of horror» of Joseph Addison, and the itinerary ends with the text which we can consider foundational for the theory of the uncanny: the essay under the same title written by Sigmund Freud in 1919, intimately related to his contemporary analysis of the principles of pleasure, reality, and the death drive. Some of the antecedents and subsequent derivations to these two key moments for the understanding of the attraction of the human being towards the uncanny will also be taken in to account to evaluate the foresaid proposals.
[eng] The aim of this paper is to trace a way through the main philosophical and literary attempts, with their drifts of a more psychological nature, to understand and to analyze the attraction towards the uncanny. The point of departure is the Enlightenment with the paradigmatic «pleasing kind of horror» of Joseph Addison, and the itinerary ends with the text which we can consider foundational for the theory of the uncanny: the essay under the same title written by Sigmund Freud in 1919, intimately related to his contemporary analysis of the principles of pleasure, reality, and the death drive. Some of the antecedents and subsequent derivations to these two key moments for the understanding of the attraction of the human being towards the uncanny will also be taken in to account to evaluate the foresaid proposals.
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ALBA, Tania. La atracción por lo siniestro: del 'horror plácido' al 'más allá del principio de placer'. Tropelías. 2020. Vol. 34, num. 8-31. ISSN 1132-2373. [consulted: 10 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/169008