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Freud's Uncanny Theory
1media/freud.jpg2016-12-12T19:56:06-08:00Brittany Stutzmanf73e27e29c3edd5653e123700b98e14046caf467128881Freud's definition of the uncanny and his thoughts about the uncanny double.plain2016-12-12T19:56:06-08:00Brittany Stutzmanf73e27e29c3edd5653e123700b98e14046caf467
The “double” is a theme that has quite often been addressed over centuries of time; one of the most iconic being in Sigmund Freud’s essay titled The Uncanny. Freud opens his essay by giving a definition of what “uncanny” is: “belonging to all that is terrible – to all that arouses dread and creeping horror…” (Freud 1). Freud’s definition of the uncanny leads me to an even bigger theoretical question about the idea of the “double” which I will address shortly, but first let us take a closer look at Freud’s idea of the uncanny. In his essay, Freud refers to the German words Heimlich and unheimlich. He uses the two words to first create a barrier between their meanings, but as he continues on the two merge to create a meaning behind what the “uncanny” really is. He describes the barrier between the two as Heimlich meaning familiar, and unheimlich meaning something which is concealed or kept out of sight (Freud 3). This barrier is what then brings the two together to form the “uncanny” – when something unfamiliar gets added to which is familiar.