ABSTRACT
Disturbed by the devastation of the First World War, the death of a friend and the prospect of his own aging and mortality, Freud was not yet ready to bring his intimations of the source and meaning of the feeling he called unheimlich to completion. By extending some of the unfinished implications of his thought - the epistemology of the unconscious, primordial mind states and the very nature of psychic organization - this chapter suggests that it is the uncontained, enigmatic, unrepresented, inexpressable core of one’s self, derived from contact with the enigma of the Other that is associated with and contributes to the feeling of the uncanny.
