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Literary theory

the frightening feeling that arises when something familiar and once repressed returns in a strange form.

In literary theory, uncanny refers to the frightening feeling that arises when something familiar and once repressed returns in a strange form. This meaning comes from Freud (2003) in The uncanny.[1]

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References

  1. Freud, S. (2003). The uncanny (D. McLintock, Trans.). Penguin Books. ISBN 9780141182377

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