See uncanny on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1982, Samuel Weber, The Legend of Freud, page 20:",
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"ref": "1994, Sonu Shamdasani, Michael Münchow, Speculations after Freud, page 186:",
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"ref": "2005, Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic, page vii:",
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"text": "[The uncanny is] something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling′s definition of the uncanny as ‘something that should have remained hidden and has come into the open.’ (Freud: 2003, 147 f)",
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