Sigmund Freud - The Uncanny - Translated by David Mclintock

• The opening of the article refers often to he (Sigmund Freud) who rarely pays attention to aesthetics, but, has to because of the concept of the "uncanny" or the realm of the frightening
• Most of the time, in aesthetics, the focus is on the positive and the beautiful and not the negative and frightening
• "The 'uncanny' is the species of frightening that can go back to once what was well known or familiar"
• intellectual uncertainty
• "Starting from the homely and the domestic, there is a further development towards the notion of something removed from the eyes of strangers, hidden, secret"
• the idea of an animate object is alive, or whether a lifeless object might not be animate
• through the tool or use of story telling
• castration complex
• the double or Doppelganger
• mirrors, images, spirits
• causes the feeling of alienation
• These concepts are coming from the writings of a man known as Hoffman
• helplessness and the unfamiliar feeling of not knowing where you are
• having lost ones way in the woods
• the element of recurrence - brings up the number 62
• superstitious fear of the evil eye
• 'something that should have remained hidden and has come into the open'
• Any aspect of death
• What is created in fiction with fairytales