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“[The Uncanny] is undoubtedly related to what is frightening — to what arouses dread and horror; equally certainly, too, the word is not always used in a clearly definable sense, so that it tends to coincide with what excites fear in general.” — Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” (1919)

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