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Freud states that the feeling of uncanniness arises when our judgment, which has already rejected certain beliefs such as the omnipotence of thought or the animistic attitude of mind, is asked to reaccept them. It should therefore not be remarkable that there have been so few contributions on telepathic phenomena in the psychoanalytic literature in spite of Freud's interest and the several papers he has written. Nandor Fodor, erstwhile director of research for the International Institute for Psychical Research, London, from 1934 to 1938, is one of the few who has followed Freud in the investigation of thought transference. In this paper he discusses five dreams, four paired or occurring to two people and having common elements outside of probability or coincidence. These dreams occurred to two patients, man and wife, with whom the analyst was corresponding, to their secretary, known also to the analyst, and to the analyst himself. He interprets the dreams as telepathic. He expresses the view that telepathy is a mechanism operating wholly or predominantly on the