TY  - CHAP
A1  - Camilletti, Fabio
T1  - Oblique gazes : the "je ne sais quoi" and the uncanny as forms of undecidability in post-Enlightenment aesthetics
T2  - Tension/Spannung / ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey. - Wien : Turia + Kant 2010. - (Cultural Inquiry ; 1) - ISBN 978-3-85132-616-1
N2  - The article compares the aesthetic notions of the "je ne sais quoi" (as it emerges in the Renaissance and is widely debated in the eighteenth century) and of the 'uncanny' as theorized by Ernst Jentsch and Sigmund Freud in the early twentieth century. Its hypothesis is that both notions, in situating aesthetic experience in a liminal space between pleasure and trouble, can be considered after-images of non-aesthetical notions - notions that belong to the domain of the sacred and have metamorphosed as forms of aesthetic undecidability through the paradigmatic fracture of early modernity. The article focuses on depictions of female figures directing their gaze upward - in the iconography of Sade's Justine, in popular imagery connected with Lourdes apparitions (1858), in medium photography, and in the images taken by Charcot of his hysterical patients at the Salpêtrière - and argues that they become a Warburgian Pathosformel indicating a space of undecidability and 'nonsense' between the subject and otherness.
KW  - Das Unheimliche
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Je ne sais quoi
KW  - Maria
KW  - Lourdes
KW  - Freud, Sigmund
KW  - Hysterie <Motiv>
KW  - Uncanny
KW  - Hysteria
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Post-enlightenment
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51406
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514066
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-01/camilletti_oblique-gazes.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-616-1
SP  - 71
EP  - 91
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -