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Ernst Jentsch

German psychiatrist

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Ernst Anton Jentsch (1867-1919) was a German psychiatrist. He authored works on psychology and pathology and is best known for his essay On the Psychology of the Uncanny (1906).^[1] However, he also authored texts on mood and the psychology of music. He is remembered for his influence on psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud who mentions the work of Jentsch in his essay "The Uncanny". Jentsch's work was also a great influence on the theory of the uncanny valley.^[2]

He died in 1919.^[3]

Works

Musik und Nerven (2 volumes), 1904-1911
Zur Psychologie des Unheimlichen, 1906
Die Laune, 1912
Das pathologische bei Otto Ludwig, 1913

Translations

Studies of psychology of sex, by Havelock Ellis
- translated as Die krankhaften Geschlechtsempfindungen auf dissoziativer Grundlage, 1907
Studien über Genie und Entartung, 1910, Original by Cesare Lombroso^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Jentsch, Ernst (1906). "On the Psychology of the Uncanny" (PDF). Translated by Roy Sellars. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
^ MacDorman, K. F. & Chattopadhyay, D. (2016). Reducing consistency in human realism increases the uncanny valley effect; increasing category uncertainty does not. Cognition, 146, 190–205. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.09.019
^ "Zur Psychologie des Unheimlichen". Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (in German). Archived from the original on 2012-06-21. Retrieved 2012-06-21.