Understanding the Uncanny

According to the text, what is the main reason for our fear of things and people?

• They are unfamiliar to us

• They are evil or frightening

• They remind us of our childhood

• They are hidden inside our homes

What does the word 'uncanny' mean in Freud's native language?

• Not from the home

• Familiar

• Hidden inside the home

• Alien or unknown

According to Freud, what is the hidden self that can frighten us?

• Our childhood beliefs and fears

• Our adult rational self

• Our subconscious desires

• Our repressed memories

What is a necessary property of the uncanny?

• Realism

• Familiarity

• Supernatural elements

• Childish fantasies

In Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven', what does the speaker initially believe about the tapping at his door?

• It is a visitor

• It is a ghost or demon

• It is Lenore returning from the dead

• It is his imagination

____wrote The Uncanny in 1919.

The_______ is the dread we feel in situations in which our childish fantasies and fears appear more real and more true than our adult worldviews.

If we have this idea in mind, the difference between familiar things that delight us and familiar things that terrify us start to make sense.