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Interaction Studies
Vol. 16:2 (2015) ► pp.200–205

Fear of the death and uncanny valley

A Freudian perspective

| University of Toulouse and LAAS/CNRS, France |
Keywords: Uncanny Valley, Human-like robots, Return of the repressed
Article outline
  • 1Introduction
  • 2Mori’s uncanny valley with respect to Jentsch’s and Freud’s uncanny concept
  • 3Can we see death in robot eyes?
  • References
Published online: 26 November 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/is.16.2.06ton
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