uncanny

He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.

An eerie feeling came over me. She seemed uncanny and fateful.

These men had some uncanny knack of knowing when the steel was right, and like many such things, it just could not be put into a textbook on the subject.

This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.

As is well known, Freud introduced the concept of the uncanny into psychoanalysis in 1919 and used The Sandman as a prime illustration for his definition.

In the preceding chapter, we saw that Freud linked the maternal body, death, and the afterlife with the uncanny in his famous essay "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche").