Josef Montfort
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Grade mir gegenüber – träumte ich noch immer? – da war ja wieder dieser Kopf – dies – ah nein, das war – seltsam – das war mein eigenes Gesicht. In der rechteckigen, rahmenlosen Spiegelplatte, die an der Wand gegenüber befestigt war: mein Gesicht und der Hals, vom untern Rande des Glases durchgeschnitten. Wie aber sah das aus! Das hatte wirklich Ähnlichkeit mit – nein, das Viehgesicht wars, der Gettatore, der mich aus meinem Spiegel angrinste mit den Zügen des Enthaupteten im Traum! "--Josef Montfort (1918) by Albrecht Schaeffer "We can also speak of a living person as uncanny, and we do so when we ascribe evil intentions to him. But that is not all; in addition to this we must feel that his intentions to harm us are going to be carried out with the help of special powers. A good instance of this is the ‘Gettatore’, that uncanny figure of Romanic superstition which Schaeffer, with intuitive poetic feeling and profound psycho-analytic understanding, has transformed into a sympathetic character in his Josef Montfort." --"The Uncanny" (1919) by Sigmund Freud |
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Josef Montfort (1918) is a novella by Albrecht Schaeffer.
It features a character named Gettatore (Italian for caster or thrower of spells) which Freud references a a living example of an uncanny person (see inset).
