Kid A In Alphabet Land/Unheimlich
Unheimlich
Kid A In Alphabet Land Faces the Unheimlich!
The Unheimlich, or uncanny, names the moment when something once familiar returns in a strange and unsettling form. What should have remained hidden comes to light.
In psychoanalytic terms, the uncanny emerges from repression. It is not the unknown as such that disturbs, but the return of what was known and disavowed.
The Unheimlich collapses the boundary between inside and outside, self and other. It produces a feeling of disorientation that resists explanation.
Within Kid A In Alphabet Land, the Unheimlich unsettles recognition itself. Kid A encounters what feels both intimate and alien, revealing the instability of what once seemed secure.