Das Unheimliche

Author

Sigmund Freud

Language

German

Year

1919

Country

Austria

Genre

Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

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The uncanny is the psychological experience of an event or thing that is unsettling in a way that feels oddly familiar, rather than simply mysterious. This phenomenon is used to describe incidents where a familiar entity is encountered in a frightening, eerie, or taboo context.