Torso sex dolls and "Disturbing Strangeness" Freud's theory of "uncanny" is most vividly embodied in torsional dolls. When an object that closely resembles a human body yet is clearly inhuman appears before us, the contradictory feeling of familiarity and strangeness strikes deep into the soul. Hans Belmer's torsional dolls are a prime example of this aesthetic of uncanny—they blend the impulses of desire and death, the wondrous and the cruel, the normal and the irrational.