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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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turned more and more into an uncanny enactment of...
Can anybody please help me with the meaning of the highlighted sentence? Does it mean "which became more and more against this repetition of the past in the present"?
Figuratively speaking, however, the disinterment provoked by the memorial was far more earth-shattering in this ‘Freudian city’: a retroactive unsettling of the ‘collective psyche’ of Vienna, whose mindset – that of the historical myth of Austrian non-complicity and innocence, even victimhood – was etched into the very built environment of the city. The matter of the medieval synagogue was one complicating factor, but there were several other ‘players’ in this performance of memorialisation, which, turned more and more into an uncanny enactment of undigested, repeating pasts in the present. From the workaday protests of local shops and businesses plying their trade in the square, whose principal objection appeared to be that the restriction of parking...
Figuratively speaking, however, the disinterment provoked by the memorial was far more earth-shattering in this ‘Freudian city’: a retroactive unsettling of the ‘collective psyche’ of Vienna, whose mindset – that of the historical myth of Austrian non-complicity and innocence, even victimhood – was etched into the very built environment of the city. The matter of the medieval synagogue was one complicating factor, but there were several other ‘players’ in this performance of memorialisation, which, turned more and more into an uncanny enactment of undigested, repeating pasts in the present. From the workaday protests of local shops and businesses plying their trade in the square, whose principal objection appeared to be that the restriction of parking...
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"uncanny" means mysterious or suggesting the supernatural. So, no, "against" is the wrong word. I would say simply that current events remind us of the pattern of past events.
- "uncanny" means mysterious or suggesting the supernatural.
- So, no, "against" is the wrong word.
- I would say simply that current events remind us of the pattern of past events.
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"uncanny" means mysterious or suggesting the supernatural. So, no, "against" is the wrong word.
I would say simply that current events remind us of the pattern of past events.
I would say simply that current events remind us of the pattern of past events.
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