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  • You can stand in front of a student all day telling them that they need to encounter the unheimliche without rejecting or turning away, but it means nothing until you or the student comes face to face with it, especially when you're not expecting it.

    Home and Unheimliche Bardiac 2008

  • You can stand in front of a student all day telling them that they need to encounter the unheimliche without rejecting or turning away, but it means nothing until you or the student comes face to face with it, especially when you're not expecting it.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Bardiac 2008

  • For Freud, encountering the unheimliche can lead to moments of revelation and understanding, though we often reject the unheimliche instead of getting to understanding.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Bardiac 2008

  • In trying to educate our students, giving them enough sense of homeliness to feel secure, our real goal is to use the sense of security through homeliness to help them embrace the unheimliche, the uncanny, in hopes that the encounter with something discomfortingly unfamiliar will foster growth and learning.

    Home and Unheimliche Bardiac 2008

  • For Freud, encountering the unheimliche can lead to moments of revelation and understanding, though we often reject the unheimliche instead of getting to understanding.

    Home and Unheimliche Bardiac 2008

  • As I read the writing pieces, and read about campus feeling like home, my mind went to Freud's concept of the unheimliche, the un-homely, or as it's usually translated into English, the uncanny.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Bardiac 2008

  • In trying to educate our students, giving them enough sense of homeliness to feel secure, our real goal is to use the sense of security through homeliness to help them embrace the unheimliche, the uncanny, in hopes that the encounter with something discomfortingly unfamiliar will foster growth and learning.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Bardiac 2008

  • As I read the writing pieces, and read about campus feeling like home, my mind went to Freud's concept of the unheimliche, the un-homely, or as it's usually translated into English, the uncanny.

    Home and Unheimliche Bardiac 2008

  • Ülemaailmne esmatrükk selles antoloogias oli ka Gene Wolfe'i jutt, mis saksa tõlkes kandis pealkirja «Eine unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art».

    Gene Wolfe «A Cabin on the Coast» Ulmeguru 2007

  • Hinein geht´s ins Üppige, in unheimliche Gefilde der Hörfreiheit.

    new debug sitecombined feed symbiontmusic 2010

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