“The Surrealism movement, our professor explained, was inspired by Freud’s concept of the uncanny, the dreadful double. According to Freud, doubling creates meaning. Doubling turns sounds into words; a baby first speaks by turning ma into mama, pa into papa. But when a double appears uninvited – the buried object returns – it brings us into the realm of the uncanny. We watch dead things wake up. And we are afraid.”
