Flesh World: On the New Uncanny By Anneleen Masschelein AUGUST 17, 2012 IN 1919, SIGMUND FREUD devoted a brief essay to “The Uncanny” (das Unheimliche). Pages of dictionary definitions were followed by a long literary analysis of E.T.A. Ho!mann’s fantastic 1816 story “The Sandman,” in which a young medical student is threatened by various doubles of mad scientists and perfidious salesmen of glasses and optical instruments, falls in love with what turns out to be a mechanical doll, goes mad and finally kills himself. Examples of the uncanny, taken fom Freud’s own experience as well fom literature and superstition, included getting lost in the woods and always ending up ab v g f d SUPPORT LARB articles sections shorts blarb quarterly larb books a/v events workshop channels about get involved sign in MENU