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Machines, robots or androids are often associated with a lack of emotions. But in the literary imagination at the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was already a mechanical android which has been endowed with projected emotions. In "The Sand-Man" (1816), E.T.A. Hoffmann introduced an android to represent the modern individual crisis. In the human-android emotional interactions in this novella, Olimpia plays the roles of a reference, a mirror and a catalyst, through which the state of the protagonist Nathaniel's psyche, cognitive dissonance, and inner crisis manifest. The projection of human emotions onto androids leads to the manifestation of inner crises of humans. This is a common phenomenon in the human-android emotional interaction (HAEI) in Western android narratives. The HAEI is the most direct source of the uncanny atmosphere in "The Sand-Man." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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