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After a brief discussion of Freud's understanding of the uncanny as the return of repressed internal conflict, usually of the oedipus complex, the author reports on another sort of uncanny experience: that associated with individual psychic trauma. She describes with rich clinical material the following five aspects of mental functioning consequent upon this trauma. (1) Repetitive memories of traumatic perceptions: "The posttraumatic memory is a mental image which has the intensity of a