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Maria Walsh in her book Art and Psychoanalysis says:

Uncanny sensations are triggered in the present by the creepy evocation of a past that the subject has repressed, a past that should have been over and done with, but which comes back to haunt the subject, making time and space seem out of joint. The ambivalent nature of the uncanny can be seen in the tripartite linguistic play that Freud delineates in his essay.

Does anyone have any information about Freud's tripartite linguistic play? I did not find anything about it on the web.

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    Have you read Freud’s essay she speaks of? It could mean that Freud makes a play on certain German words. If she means this, then she should be more clear. I rather doubt anyone here has read this book. I could be wrong, but you may have more luck on another forum. – Gordon Nov 03 '19 at 14:39
  • You may also be able to find a review of her book in an academic journal. If you luck up and find a good reviewer you can learn a lot about the book in question. (In other words this may be more about Walsh and her interpretation than it is about Freud. I simply don’t know.) – Gordon Nov 03 '19 at 15:07

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The essay is online, there is a wikipedia article (Uncanny), Walsh's book p.21 can be seen on googlebooks. Heimliche is the original German word which, as it is explained by Freud and his commentators, has a meaning that comes actually very close to its inverse, that is unheimliche, So the word has 2 meanings and there is a separate word unheimliche which is the 3rd element. At least this appears to be M. Walsh' count.

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