Freud's concept of the "uncanny" is very influential and appreciated in psychoanalysis and literature. As Freud explains, it reveals much about his understanding of human beings as essentially determined by their unconscious fears and desires. His interpretation of the uncanny can be analyzed in two ways: linguistic and real. At the beginning it starts with the term “uncanny”, which comes from the German word “unheimlich”, which literally means “undomestic” – something unfamiliar and unknown, never experienced before. The problem is that the definition of the word and the linguistic peculiarities take up half of the entire reading, so we get to the point after the second half. Freud therefore argues that the uncanny is the result of the restitution of repressed infantile desires or beliefs. «The uncanny is something that is secretly familiar to us, which has undergone repression and then returned» (Freud 1919 [1985], 368). In other words, it is something that was familiar from childhood, then was overcome, but returned to consciousness through repetition, creating the effect of the frightening that we call the uncanny. However, not everything that comes out of repression is mysterious. The example of this is a double (doppelganger), which is the primary source of a child's narcissism, self-love, producing multiple versions of himself, creating the sense of immortality. However, after many years, when he meets him again, the double produces the disturbing impression – return to the primitive state of mind. This brings us to Freud's main argument: the uncanny is a memory of our psychic past, of aspects of our unconscious life or of the early primitive stages of life. Nathaniel from Hoffmann's story “The Sandman” lives in a sequence...... of events sel...... middle of paper ...... and ignores the narrative structure and its essential elements. As Kofman observes, "To construct analytic work always begins with deconstruction" (Kofman 1991, 89). Freud's synthesis of the story seems exactly like a deconstruction. It is a completely new text, which seems like a simple version of the original one. This is done mainly so that the reader does not bother looking for the complete text. However, it takes away the aesthetics of the reading and obscures its true meaning. Freud's strategic motivations prevent him from developing an open and impartial view of the narrative (Scharpé 2003) Therefore, Freud's article does not provide substantial answers and many things remain open to exploration and research. Without a doubt, his arguments are tangible and useful, but as much as he tries to go further and dig deeper, they do not he still manages to defend them fully..