06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Uncanny in English
The term uncanny, which is a term that Freud uses in the English on occasion too, comes from the the etymology there is tied to well, un obviously is like not, but can he has a you can trace its origins back to like the term cunning. The point is uncanny as a word in English derives from a similar sort of brew of hidden knowledge, strange knowledge, knowledge that's people shouldn't confess to knowing, but they kind of know, right? It has a magical supernatural dimension to it. And interestingly enough, after I just like read all of these things about like what is Heimlich and how it tips into the unheimlich, like we don't actually say
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