The Uncanny and The Shadow

The "Uncanny" in short terms is just fear of the unfamiliar. Something that might be normal to certain people you may think twice about it and think their weird, like a baby drinking from a baby bottle is normal, if you see an 18 year old drinking from a baby bottle, there is something weird going on there. Sigmund Freud's student Carl Jung believed that there was such thing as "the shadow" and anima and animus. "The shadow" was what people would hide ways they really felt about things, or things they hid from other people and some time in their lives they would reach into that shadow, act a certain way and the reason would be because of something that happened in their past. for example, my younger sister got teased about her pointy ears when she was younger, she put that behind her (in her shadow). As she grew up she started changing her personality and being more uptight and mean about things, always getting into fights for the smallest things because she felt everyone was out to get her. When her violence started getting out of control she started seeing a psychologist and it turns out that the reason she acts that way is linked to her getting teased a lot when she was younger and she is still holding that grudge. The anima is a feminine personality found in the unconcious of men and the animus is a masculine personality found in the unconcious of women. The shadow in some way is considered "the truth", it is who you really are and how you really feel but if you were to act the way your shadow shows, then you would be considered more of like a "savage"; since the shadow portrays what you secretly think but would'nt literally do. In the movie "Abre Los Ojos" after the accident he felt as if he had to act as ugly as he felt because his face was destroyed after the accident. After the operation he felt better and had the love of his woman but when he would look at himself in the mirror he would still look ugly though nobody else saw him that way he saw himself that way. This made him act out and beat his girlfriend and try to kill her because he also saw her as the lady that ruined his face. I believe that the reason he was acting that way was because his shadow or unconcious was telling him he was going to be ugly anyway since alll he cared mostly about was vanity and money. Also, it seemed like he could'nt get enough and he already had everything he wanted. I think that these parts were foreshadowing so that the truth about what happened and him buying the life insurance would explain everything and these parts were giving the audience a heads up. In the movie "The Matrix" Neo's shadow comes out while he is in the matrix, since he is in a different place, I guess he feels he can act differently. The term "uncanny" can be used frequently in "The Matrix" because everything they see outside of the matrix seems weird to them, like when they see the lady with the red dress. I believe that both Freud and Jung have good theories about these pyschological themes. We do have an unconcious mind that makes us do things we don't want to at times, and since everyone has a different view of perception, some things may be uncanny to some and not to others, especially in different countries and cultures.