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The Uncanny is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, often being uncomfortably strange . Freud describes the uncanny in his work as analogous to the German Unheimliche or unhomely. The uncanny is "something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling's definition of the uncanny's 'something that should have remained hidden and has come into open'"
suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley
beyond what is natural; "his uncanny sense of direction"; (`unco' is chiefly Scottish)
strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird
{s} unnatural, strange, mysterious
Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly
If you describe something as uncanny, you mean that it is strange and difficult to explain. The hero, Danny, bears an uncanny resemblance to Kirk Douglas I had this uncanny feeling that Alice was warning me. + uncannily un·can·ni·ly They have uncannily similar voices. very strange and difficult to explain
The Uncanny is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, often being uncomfortably strange. Freud describes the uncanny in his work as analogous to the German Unheimliche or unhomely. The uncanny is "something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schellngs definition of the uncannys something that should have remained hidden and has come into open"
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