ON UNHEIMLICH - THE UNCANNY The obscure feeling

Abstract: This work explores some aspects of the roots and development of our psychic functioning: anunstable Gestalt, generating a need for certainty, and each subject’s multiple identity.The author has as a reference, the Freud’s work ‘The Uncanny’’. Freud describes ‘Unheimlich’ as anobscure feeling, a type of fright that leads back to something that has been known a long time ago andwhich reappears, arousing horror and allure, like something that cannot really be distanced from.Something unknown and on the other hand, too well known: an unpleasant perception, which is pushedaway but immediately bounces back and must be recognised: it is not me/it is me. Simultaneous negationand affirmation, distance and uncanny closeness, at once.This’’ it is me/it is not me’’ reflects the lability of the ego’s boundaries, between the ego and the world,between the oneself and self-otherness and a coexistence of opposites inside oneself through multipleconfigurations, first of all the Double.