Uncanny
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title:
Uncanny
text:
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. Ernst Jentsch set out the concept of the uncanny, later elaborated on by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay "Das Unheimliche", which explores the eeriness of dolls and waxworks. For Freud, the uncanny is located in the stran
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Psychological experience of something being strangely familiar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny
date created:
2006-12-17T07:21:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T17:26:44Z
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