The Uncanny/Das Unheimlich

“Heimlich is a word the meaning of which develops in the direction of ambivalence, until it finally coincides with its opposite, unheimlich. Unheimlich is in some way or other a sub-species of heimlich.”

- Sigmund Freud

“‘Unheimlich’ is the name for everything that ought to have remained secret and hidden but has ( Read more... )

"A rough but not inadequate analogy to this supposed relation of conscious to unconscious activity might be drawn from the field of ordinary photography. The first stage of the photograph is the 'negative'; every photographic picture has to pass through the 'negative process', and some of these negatives which have held good in examination are ( Read more... )