Emily Dickinson’s poetic injunction to “tell all the truth but tell it slant” offers an orientation toward a topic that has long been highly controversial within psychoanalytic theory and practice: the exploration of uncanny clinical moments and their implications. Although Freud was fascinated with this topic, his fear of its potential to unravel both individual and collective certainty drove his interest and that of psychoanalysts after him underground. Using clinical and theoretical material as well as models within contemporary physics, this paper suggests that uncanny moments invite us to glimpse a profound underlying interconnectedness which asks us to bear both fear and awe.