Studies in ParaPsychology Author:Sigmund Freud In three of his most fascinating essays, Freud departs from the main lines of psychoanalytic theory to consider the problems of parapsychology. Here, with intuitive genius, he invades the murky world of mysticism, magic and miracles to reveal reason in the irrational. — Describing the uncanny as "that class of the terrifying which leads back to s... more »omething long known to us, once very familiar", Freud applies his famous "compulsion to repeat" theory in order to investigate the eerie feelings, telepathic messages, premonitions and terrifying fantasies that characterize uncanniness.« less