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Freud has described such experiences as “uncanny,” or unheimlich—the opposite of heimlich, which means “familiar,” “native,” “belonging to the home.”
Freud hat solche Erfahrungen als «unheimlich» beschrieben – das Gegenteil von «heimlich», was so viel heißt wie «vertraut», «heimatlich», «zum Heim gehörend».
The object of this fantasy, it would seem, was the total annihilation of other religious communities – communities with whom social life had always been intimately shared, but who suddenly seemed, now everything was being shaken out by a border, hideous (the German word ‘unheimlich’, usually translated as ‘uncanny’ but literally ‘un-home-like’, would fit well here).
Gegenstand dieser Fantasie, so könnte es scheinen, war die vollständige Ausmerzung anderer religiöser Gemeinschaften – Gemeinschaften, mit denen man immer eng zusammengelebt hatte, in denen man sich aber nun, da alles aus den Fugen geriet, plötzlich unbehaust fühlte im Sinne des deutschen Wortes »unheimlich«.
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