The Blind Field is an essay by Margaret Iverson which attempts to explain feelings of nostalgia versus feelings of the uncanny, Freud explained this as distorted repressed memories. These two feelings are virtually opposite. The author goes on to match these feelings with paintings by Hopper. These images were customarilly percieved as being nostalgic, yet she tries to pin feelings of the uncanny to these images. Her defintion of uncanny is a repressed memory that …
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…envoke feelings even if they never existed. The author's main argument is that Hopper puposely lead the viewer to a dark side with the use of unheimlich theories, feelings Thanatos by using voids and the complexity of The Blind Field. Emerson stated: "In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejcted thought; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Works Cited Iverson, "In the Blind Field" Art History v21 no3 September 1998