Ernst Jentsch

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). 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.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.

He died in 1919.

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

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