[The uncanny]
frightening, yet familiar. He uses the German word and its opposite, to illustrate unheimlich heimlich, this point. Within the many definitions for the word reaches a point in which it means its unheimlich, exact opposite, without the word changing itself. means both "familiar" and "unfamiliar," and Unheimlich translates into English as "uncanny." Freud uses Hoffmann's story titled "The Sand Man" to explore what is uncanny, focusing on images and events that he believes are related to the fear of castration. These include: the loss of sight, specifically through the removal of eyes by the Sandman, and severed limbs. He connects this fear of castration to males' belief that "there is something uncanny about the female genital organs." According to Freud, the female's genital organs are uncanny because they (1)
Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de reanimation