Abstract
I find Freud’s writing interesting and fascinating. Surprisingly, his writing was mainly interpreted by psychoanalysts and was looked at through their perspective. I very much share Ricoeur’s view (1970) that Freud can have various readings. I find some of Freud’s writings to be phenomenological texts (whether in client case studies or in other essays, such as The Uncanny). I will try to use this paper to reflect on some of the issues that reading The Uncanny evokes, those that are relevant to phenomenological-existential psychotherapy.  

Freud was a physician and often wrote from this position. In this mode in the uncanny essay he uses literature and art to convey scientific knowledge. Hence, it may be argued that he approaches the topic from different and perhaps even contradictory positions.  

Throughout the essay, Freud was trying to ground the notion of the uncanny into psychoanalysis. However, it is unclear what Freud attempted to describe and ground. I am unsure whether Freud had a clear idea of how his essay would develop when he started writing it. It appears that in the process of writing, Freud struggled to describe the notion of the uncanny, which troubled him. I am interested in exploring the process of writing as a metaphor; similar to the process of creating meanings and the way it may emerge in the therapeutic process. At the same time, I will also try to look into the notion of the uncanny.

Key words- uncanny, knowledge, science.
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