ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud admired and appreciated the deliberate use of the uncanny for artistic purposes, and a fascination with this continues today, often linked specifically to Freud's paper. A book with the intriguing title, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely, again draws on Freud's paper, describing the uncanny as 'a disquieting slippage between what is homely and what is definitively unhomely'. Making use of Paul Roazen's book Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk, Neil Hertz draws a parallel between the destructive triangular relationships in 'The Sandman' and certain events in Freud's life at the time. What made an impact on Michael Parsons in 'Constructions in Analysis' was how the end and the beginning of Freud's life as an analyst map on to each other. In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, one of the founding texts of the Enlightenment, John Locke expressed a hope with which Freud might have concurred.
