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Worldtree Fellow Paul Fecteau is collecting personal accounts for a study on uncanny experiences.
The term uncanny, technically implying an unsettling mixture of the strange and the familiar, here covers any seemingly inexplicable episode that generated a vertigo-like sense of dread or a puzzlingly persistent uneasiness.
If you would like to share your report of something strange that happened to you, please e-mail Paul at paul@worldtreeconsortium.org.
Should you wish a more public venue, Paul has created a Yahoo Group, Das Umheimliche (named for the title of Freud’s landmark 1919 essay on the uncanny). You are invited to post your story there, as well as discuss other matters related to the unknown, the unexplained, or the unusual.
The following list includes the most recent translation of the Freud essay mentioned above, as well as other works that have been influential in Paul’s approach to this study:
Freud, Sigmund. The Uncanny 1919. Trans. David McClintock. Penguin, 2003.
Reed, Graham. The Psychology of Anomalous Experience . Prometheus, 1988.
Royle, Nicholas. The Uncanny Routledge, 2003.
