The master's thesis argues that embodiment is accompanied by anxiety and attempts to understand and describe this anxiety. The first part of the master's thesis, which touches on embodiment, focuses on the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. The concepts that are discussed in more detail include the flesh, body schema, the Other, the Look, and the lived body. The second part of the master's thesis analyzes in detail the concepts of Das Unheimliche by Sigmund Freud, the werid and the the eerie by Mark Fisher, and art-horror by Noël Carroll. This is followed by a psychoanalytic treatment of anxiety by Otto Rank, and then a connection between all the presented concepts, with which I tried to answer the question of why and how embodiment is necessarily anxiety-inducing for humans.
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