unheimlich

The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche -- literally, "un-home-ly") is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange. http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~amtower/uncanny.html Das Unheimliche (essay)
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Weird, uncanny
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