The Uncanny Sigmund Freud Analysis

In “The Uncanny,” Sigmund Freud writes about “that class of terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar” (Freud 2-3). “Uncanny” is defined here as uncomfortable, uneasy, gloomy, ghastly, and (of a house) haunted (2). Freud also mentions it as darkness, silence, and solitude (20). _____. The following dream illustrates Freud’s description of the uncanny as being fearful and uneasy. Freud refers to uncanny as being a class of something terrifying that leads back to things familiar to us (1). It’s commonly known that we as people dream unrealistic things with a splash of reality or things we are quite familiar with. The unconscious mind combines things we are familiar with as well as things we are afraid of in …show more content…
I begin packing a suitcase with a bunch of clothes and grab my favorite stuffed bear and begin walking. I walked what felt like miles and ended up on an interstate where there were no people in sight just empty cars that looked abandoned. Then out of nowhere this car comes speeding through the interstate, flies past me, but then stops and begins to back up to where I am. After the person backs up to where I am he claims to be my uncle and my parents sent him to get me. He says that he went to my house to get me, but I wasn’t there so he just drove around till he seen someone walking around that looked like …show more content…
When having nightmares and dreams we tend to dream up some strange things that obviously wouldn’t happen in real life and that why our dreams most of the time are very uncanny. Freud also says that a living person can be uncanny because they might have bad intentions. He says also that dismembered limbs, severed heads, hands cut off, feet that dance, and especially if the limbs can move themselves