The UncannyThis is the first book length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking in literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, and queer history. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's extraordinary essay of 1919, 'The Uncanny' (Das Unheimliche). Above all, Freud was perhaps the first to foreground the distinctive nature of the uncanny as a feeling of something not simply weird or mysterious, but strangely