The importance of the Uncanny is not only limited to fruitful discussions it generates about psychoanalytic theorizations and to its different conceptualizations related to psychopathology. We also encounter the Uncanny in the creative works of artists (literature, cinema, painting, architecture etc…) since the creative activity leads the artist to the dark places of human soul where all boundaries are confused. The artist must have the courage to dive in this blurred water to collect the precious stones hidden in it and come back to the surface in order to polish and embellish them.

This task is similar to the work of the analyst who must have the capacity to endure this confusion with her analysand at the risk of getting acquainted with madness. Sometimes, when especially the two protagonists are caught in the same collective trauma (Janine Puget's over lapping worlds), the only way to give a meaning to what is happening during an analytic session is when the analyst abandons herself to the fearful primary identification with her analysand.