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Heimat — An uncanny environmental object in Sebald's Austerlitz
Heimat (home) is the place of the mother's genitals or body, as Freud formulated in Das Unheimliche (The « Uncanny »). Nowadays this German word and concept is — as a consequence of global changes and migration issues — subject to discussions about its meanings, especially in a psychoanalytical context. Questions arise about its linking with an environmental-mother object, that is grounded in archaic-sensuous experiences and maternal language.