No One’s Home: The Unheimlich in Freud, Heidegger and The Haunting

Abstract

This paper is an existential exploration of home and homesickness through the concept of the unheimlich. Using personal, clinical and cinematic case studies, I draw on classical psychoanalysis and phenomenology through their familiar roots in the uncanny to re-examine the unheimlich and its therapeutic application for existential homelessness.