THE MIZORAM POST AIZAWL SUNDAY DECEMBER 13 SUNDAY SPECIAL 2020 PAGE 4 "Ice Cathedral" in Sigmund Freud's 'The Swiss Alps offers Uncanny' and horror cinema visitors unique show SHANKU SHARMA 'the idea of being robbed of 'Uncanny is in reality one's eyes', as the 'more nothing new or alien, but striking instance of something which is familiar uncanniness' in the tale. and old-established in the The items and individuals mind and which has become that we project our own alienated from it only repressed impulses upon through the process of become a most uncanny repression,' writes Sigmund threat to us, uncanny Freud. monsters and freaks similar The uncanny is the to fairy-tale folk-devils, and psychological experience of subsequently often become something as strangely scapegoats we blame for familiar, rather than simply many perceived miseries, mysterious. It may describe calamities, and maladies. incidents where a familiar What interests us most in thing or event is this long extract is to find An ice cave which forms 3000, told Reuters inside encountered in an that among its different naturally on a high- the cave. unsettling, eerie, or taboo shades of meaning the word altitude glacier in the This year the cave’s context. For Freud, the heimlich exhibits one which Swiss Alps became interior is quite flat, uncanny locates the is identical with its opposite, accessible on Thursday, to making access easier, he strangeness in the ordinary. unheimlich. What is the delight of visitors who said. Having said this, one can heimlich thus comes to be came to marvel at the The natural cave, also relate this feeling with the unheimlich. huge blue vault of the “ice known as “the Mill”, experience of watching a Alfred Hitchcock was the cathedral”. forms through a siphon horror film. We often end master in the art of Varying in size and effect. Each spring and up being frightened after or conducing art into the world shape from year to year, summer, the cavity fills during watching a horror of Unheimlich. It was the cave has a rounded with water from the snow film. This fear springs from because he used simple, ceiling made of thick ice melt, forming a lake. In the fact that the feelings of everyday objects who may about 5 metres (yards) autumn, the plug terror and horror confront suddenly lose their familiar high, and is about 20 disappears and the water us from within and not side, and become the metres long. drains, leaving the cave. from without. Horror films messenger of beyond The site can be reached “It’s magnificent, but address these feelings and narcissism. on foot in 15 minutes even that isn’t the right we end up feeling more and Examples of situations from the chairlift at word. I’ve never seen more horrified. that provoke an uncanny Glacier 3000 above the anything like it. Almost as It was Ernst Jentsch who feeling to include inanimate resort of Les Diablerets, it’s not of this world in set out the concept of the objects coming alive, but at your own risk, fact. It’s magnificent, I uncanny, which Sigmund thoughts appearing to have an organisers said. can only recommend it if Freud elaborated on in his effect in the real-world, “It’s the first time we you have the chance to 1919 essay Das seeing your double (the indicate it and open it go,” Helen Tromp, a Dutch Unheimliche, which doppelgänger effect), officially. woman living nearby said explores the eeriness of representations of death such The last years ... we after visiting. Brice Rozes, dolls and waxworks. as ghosts or spirits, and had kind of an ice cave touring the site on his day It may be noted that the on the work of Hoffmann is the central uncanny doll Olympia, who is to all unparalleled atmosphere of involuntary repetitions. The but it was different, it was off, said: “It’s very concept of the Uncanny was (whom Freud refers to as the element in the story ('The appearances a living being, is uncanniness evoked by the uncanny arises when more steep. And this year impressive. The vault is later elaborated on and 'unrivalled master of the Sandman): 'I cannot think— by any means the only, or story.' childhood beliefs we have it looks like an ice incredible. Standing developed by Sigmund uncanny in literature'). and I hope most readers of indeed the most important, Instead of that, Freud grown out of suddenly seem cathedral, so it’s really beneath it, you can just Freud in his 1919 essay 'The However, he criticises the story will agree with element that must be held relies on an entirely different real. Freud called it ‘the beautiful,” Bernhard imagine the weight above. Uncanny', which also draws Jentsch's belief that Olympia me—that the theme of the responsible for the quite element of the story, namely, return of the repressed’. Tschannen, CEO of Glacier It’s beautiful.” Solo sauna a When Lata Mangeshkar wished hot favourite 'Bade Bhai Dilip Kumar ji' in Tokyo as It was the one classic moment that posterity would love to cherish, about a year fraught with miseries. coronavirus When Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar turned 98 on Friday, several Bollywood bigwigs shared warm cases rise greetings on social media. A very special wish came from another legend, melody queen Lata Mangeshkar. The Nightingale of India took to Twitter and posted her best wishes, along with a note for her "bade bhai Dilip Kumar ji", written in Hindi. "Namaskar. Aaj mere bade bhai Dilip Kumar ji ka janamdin hai. Main unko bahut badhaai deti hun aur ye prathana karti hun ki unki sehat acchi rahe (Greetings. Today is the birthday of my elder brother Dilip Kumar. I convey my best wishes and pray for his good health)," tweeted birthday @TheDilipKumar saab. I #HappyBirthdayDilipKumar Every The spread of the novel coronavirus may @mangeshkarlata. wish you good health and a long life generation loves you!!!" Riteish have slowed economies and closed many Mangeshkar also shared a ahead. I feel fortunate remembering Deshmukh wrote. businesses worldwide, but it hasn’t been a picture with the tweet, where she the times we spent together while Actor Shekhar Suman posted: damper on a newly opened Tokyo sauna is seen helping him tuck into a shooting for #Izzatdar & "Happy bday to the greatest actor that caters to solo customers. delicacy. #KanoonApnaApna. Sending you my of India,now n forever..Dilip The Finnish-style sauna rooms at Solo Earlier on Friday, wishes had best wishes. Take care." Kumar. I'm like others, his hugest Sauna Tune, where customers can relax in poured in from many Bollywood Ajay Devgn posted: "Happy hugest fan. I Remember once wen I solitude and enjoy the heat from water colleagues on social media for the birthday Yusuf Saab. You're an met him, he held my hand and over hot stones, are so popular they are veteran actor who is referred to as institution by yourself. And, you've asked, itna fast kaise bolte ho? That booked up within hours. Yusuf sahab or Dilip sahab. always been my steady source of was indeed one of the greatest Although the idea for the business came "To the one and only, who inspiration over the years. Respects moments of my life." before the spread of the coronavirus, the amazed and inspired the world by to you Sir today and always." "My most adorable Person Who pandemic and the social distancing it just being himself. Wishing the "When all the words in the taught me not only d grammar of brought have been a big boost, said co- legendary @TheDilipKumar a world fail to describe a human dignified cinema but also the founder Daisuke Kawase. Happy Birthday. I cherish & being, an Actor, an Era, a Legend, dignity of being human. #DILIP “We feel that there has been a strong remember every time we've met in an Institution and all the joy, light KUMAR Enters today his 99 th years demand for solo services like these as a vivid detail & you have always loved n sheer magic he brought on with highest respect as greatest way of preventing the spread of the me like your own. Love you tooo celluloid each time he enlightened actor of indian cinema. A big salute coronavirus,” Kawase said. much. Have a good one Dilip it. Happy Birthday #DilipKumar from all of us sir," tweeted The sauna, which opened last week, Sahib," Shah Rukh Khan tweeted. saab. #HappyBirthdayDilipKumar," filmmaker Subhash Ghai. also caters to a growing market of single Dharmendra posted on Urmila Matondkar tweeted. Singer Mika Singh shared: people in Japan. Instagram: "Happy Birthday Dalip Raj Babbar wrote: "Happy "Birthday wishes to the living According to government statistics Sahab. Love you my darling Birthday Wishes to the living legend Legend #DilipKumar Saab, who's made available in 2018, the ratio of single- brother." @TheDilipKumar Saheb. Through real name is #YusufAliKhan. A true person households in Japan is estimated to Kamal Haasan wrote: "To my his sterling performances he wrote example of real love- Fans don't increase to 40% in 2040, from 30% in dearest Yusuf Khan Saheb/Shri. Indian cinema's grammar book on care about his Religion, Cast or the 2005. DIlip Kumar Ji @TheDilipKumar Acting from which so many like me Community he belongs from. Just “Businesses aimed at ‘solo’ people will My salute to one of the greatest benefitted. Feel blessed to have pure love for his talent. God bless take root here, even after the end of the living Indian artistes in Cinema.