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The term <i>estrangement</i> connotes an idea of novelty or even bizarreness. Freud, in his essay "The Uncanny" (1919h), added an additional meaning when he emphasized that this feeling, an experience close to a sensation, is at its peak when it is triggered by the reappearance of a familiar object that has been forgotten or repressed for a long time. The feeling of estrangement can be compared to the phenomena of déjà vu or <i>déjà vécu</i> (previously lived). Although the concept is developed in <i>The psychopathology of everyday life</i>...
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