‘Now, dolls are of course rather closely connected with childhood life. We remember that in their early games children do not distinguish at all sharply between living and inanimate objects, and that they are especially fond of treating their dolls like live people.’ (Freud, 1919, p.233)
My ‘doll’ was a reflection on childhood life and appealed to the uncanny due to the way it was lacking a head, stuffed, had no real gaze (much like Pauline bunny) and yet still was a ‘person’. It was easily seen as a child and it was positioned to face the walk way. Around it girly things were strewn to gender it and it was lacking hands and feet; it was connected to MY childhood life as they were MY childhood pyjamas it was wearing… along with my childhood keyboard it was beside.
I was never fond of dolls when I was little, but now I have a bigger interest in them due to understanding the uncanny now, ironically.
(See here; Lucas’s Pauline Bunny.)
