uncanny

英語

詞源

源自un- +‎ canny，即「超乎理解之外的」，「超乎熟知的知識範圍外的」。對比中古英語 unkanne (「未知的」)。

發音

• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ʌnˈkæni/

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• 韻部：-æni

形容詞

uncanny (比較級 uncannier，最高級 uncanniest)

1. 怪異的，詭異的，怪誕的

   He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.

   他生來長得很像那位死去的水手，很詭異。

   • 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, 「The Heart of Darkness」, 出自 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine，第 200 頁:

     An eerie feeling came over me. She seemed uncanny and fateful.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2. (英國方言) 粗心的，大意的

名詞

uncanny

1. (心理學，心理分析，弗洛伊德) 詭異而有熟悉感的東西 （德語「unheimlich」的翻譯（字面意思為「不是秘密的」）。）
   • 2011, Espen Dahl, Hans-Gunter Heimbrock, In Between: The Holy Beyond Modern Dichotomies, page 99:

     [The uncanny is] something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling′s definition of the uncanny as 『something that should have remained hidden and has come into the open.』 (Freud: 2003, 147 f)

   • 2003, Nicholas Royle, The Uncanny, page 1 [1]:

     The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced.

   • 2011, Anneleen Masschelein, The Unconcept: The Freudian Uncanny in Late-Twentieth-Century Theory, page 2 [2]:

     Because the uncanny affects and haunts everything, it is in constant transformation and cannot be pinned down.

   • 2001, Diane Jonte-Pace, Speaking the Unspeakable, page 81 [3]:

     In the preceding chapter, we saw that Freud linked the maternal body, death, and the afterlife with the uncanny in his famous essay "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche").

   • 1982, Samuel Weber, The Legend of Freud, page 20 [4]:

     This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.

   • 2005, Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic, page vii [5]:

     Freud argued that the uncanny was particularly associated with feelings of horror aroused by the figure of the paternal castrator, neglecting the tropes of woman and animal as a source of the uncanny.

   • 1994, Sonu Shamdasani and Michael Münchow, Speculations after Freud, page 186 [6]:

     As is well known, Freud introduced the concept of the uncanny into psychoanalysis in 1919 and used The Sandman as a prime illustration for his definition.

用法說明

現代詞義中，「canny」和「uncanny」不再互為反義詞。

衍生詞彙

• uncanny valley
• uncannily

相關詞彙

找不到分類派生自原始印歐語詞根*ǵneh₃-的英語詞