Continuing his exploration into the depths of the human mind, the father of psychoanalysis examines in this brief but highly influential essay the feeling of the uncanny, which "undoubtedly belongs to the realm of the terrifying, that which causes anxiety and fear," but at the same time is not necessarily unknown or completely new to us.
Drawing on a wealth of examples from literature and reality (from Herodotus to E.T.A. Hoffmann, author of The Nutcracker, and from minor childhood memories to the sudden recall of culturally outdated ways of thinking), Freud once again finds a way to guide us through hidden corners of our own mind that we often struggle to recognize.