This characteristic and element is significant to the uncanny because it consists of things many people fear. According to Freud, “Many people experience the feeling [of the “uncanny”] in the highest degree in relation to death and dead bodies, to the return of the dead, and to spirits and ghosts” (Freud 13). In other words, it is common for people to have a fear of death, dead bodies, the return of the dead, spirits and ghosts. Many people fear death and do not want to die, but biology has not been able to come to a conclusion as to whether death is the inevitable fate of every living being or whether it can be an avoidable event in life. Not knowing what happens after death can arouse an uncanny feeling within oneself. In knowing that the dead can become visible as spirits, we feel an uncanniness because we do not want them to appear to
This characteristic and element is significant to the uncanny because it consists of things many people fear. According to Freud, “Many people experience the feeling [of the “uncanny”] in the highest degree in relation to death and dead bodies, to the return of the dead, and to spirits and ghosts” (Freud 13). In other words, it is common for people to have a fear of death, dead bodies, the return of the dead, spirits and ghosts. Many people fear death and do not want to die, but biology has not been able to come to a conclusion as to whether death is the inevitable fate of every living being or whether it can be an avoidable event in life. Not knowing what happens after death can arouse an uncanny feeling within oneself. In knowing that the dead can become visible as spirits, we feel an uncanniness because we do not want them to appear to