Uncanny
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Uncanny means strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
- He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.
The state is first identified by Ernst Jentsch in a 1906 essay, On the Psychology of the Uncanny. Jentsch defines the Uncanny as: "doubts whether an apparently animate being is really alive; or conversely, whether a lifeless object might be, in fact, animate" (unheimliche). The term was adopted by Freud,
See also
- Freudian uncanny
- Todorovian uncanny
- "The uncanny," a mode of fantastic fiction as defined in Tzvetan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.
- Mike Kelley's uncanny, a 2004 art exhibition at the Tate Modern.
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