Sigmund Freud's The Uncanny

Sigmund Freud argues that there is a connection between the subconscious in dreams that correlates to the feeling of das unheimliche. Freud argued throughout his essay on The Uncanny that the das unheimliche is found within the class of the terrifying which leads back to something once known to someone, or something that was once familiar, something that was repressed and that your subconscious is now trying to talk to you through. This connection is seen between one's dreams of desires that are suppressed because they fall out of the lines of the status quo and the resurfacing of the uncanny in one's life as well. Freud argues anything that doesn't fit within the rules of society always finds a way to resurface in someone's life, whether that
This is seen throughout his essay on The Uncanny when he describes the feeling of dejavu that many people experience that resurfaces when experiencing something in doubles. Freud states “the idea of the “double” does not necessarily disappear with the passing of the primary narcissism… a special faculty is slowly formed there, able to oppose the rest of the ego, with the function of observing and criticizing the self and exercising a censorship within the mind, and this we become aware of as our “conscience” (426). This quote shows the suppression and censorship of the mind that Freud discusses and is analyzing in the uncanny, he is explaining what happens in the mind when something uncanny happens, or when you have a thought that doesn't align with the social beliefs of the society you are living amongst. We divide these different kind of thoughts into our subconscious and conscious, things we allow ourselves the think of and remember and the things we ignore and hide. The unpure or even slightly controversial thoughts and desires that we experience that aren't proper or go against our free will, we subconsciously ignore. We aren't even aware that we have suppressed these thoughts, they just find a way to