The Freudian concept of “the uncanny” refers to_________________?

Introduction to Literary Studies 02/02/2021

A. a feeling of being disconnected from the world.
B. a sense of something being familiar and foreign at once.
C. terror at the thought of death.
D. a realization of one’s empowered position in the world.

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