Can some one summerize to me the idea of the "uncanny" for Segmund Freud in not more than 15 lines ????

Question

cocerning the first chapter of it

Answer 1

According to Freud's description, the uncanny "derives its terror not from something externally alien or unknown but--on the contrary--from something strangely familiar which defeats our efforts to separate ourselves from it". Freud discusses how an author can evoke an uncanny response on the part of the reader by straddling the line between reality and unreality within the fiction itself.
Freud's Uncanny" divided into three sections:
1/ Definition of the uncanny; definitions of the term itself; the semantic field of the opposition of the German words heimlich and unheimlich.
2/ Examination of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s (1776-1822) short story "The Sandman" (1817) and a discussion of the psychoanalytic background and general context required for an understanding of the experience of the uncanny.
3/ Deliberations on the effect of the uncanny, in particular its aesthetic instantiation in literature and fiction.

The Qualities of Uncanny Fiction

A. Focus is on one central character = the anchor character; events, people, etc. in the fictional world only have significance in relation to this character. It forms the hub, or center of all events.

B. External events are seen through the perspective of the anchor character and colored by his or her psyche; they are projections of the psyche of this fictional character.

C. The text thus takes on the quality of a dream text, with manifest and latent content. The real and the fantastic (Freud’s required ambivalence) form a unity in the consciousness of the anchor character. This lends some of the events the shimmer of the symbolic because it is undecidable whether they are real or imagined.

D. Stylistically, uncanny fiction requires a fusion of objective and subjective narrative styles. We commonly find a realistic frame, which reads like a report or a newspaper article, which is suddenly ruptured by fantastic events. But this rupture is also related with the accuracy and detail of objective narration.

E. The reader's perspective must be that of the anchor character; events must be perceived through his/her eyes, filtered through the psyche of this character.

Only when all of these conditions are met is the experience of the uncanny transferred from the domain of the fictional world to the receptive experience of the reader."

Whoops, I probably went over 15 lines - sorry.