The dimension of the uncanny, introduced by Freud in his famous p is located at the very core of psychoanalysis.'It is the dimension where a concepts of psychoanalysis come together, where its diverse lines of argu form a knot. The uncanny provides a clue to the basic project of psychoan And yet Freud appears to be somewhat at a loss about how to make use o clue. Although he enumerates a number of instances of the uncanny, giv array of examples embellished with theoretical reflections, he leaves us i end with only a sketch or a prolegomenon to a theory of the uncanny. E how the different pieces fit together remains unclear.