Western definition of yoga has been significantly altered through a fitness-centered capitalist mindset.

The uncanny can be simply defined as something that feels familiar and yet simultaneously has unfamiliar aspects.

Although the child may not realize it, he is playing the game to recreate the feeling of his mother leaving, and then retrieving the doll to create the feeling of the mother coming back.

The feeling of familiarity/unfamiliarity (heimlich/unheimlich) is created by the traumatic event, instinct, or knowledge that is part of that unconscious mind.

This disruption in power (much of which stemming from the nuances of the unfamiliar or “unheimlich” discussed just prior) is one of the most blatant aspects of the uncanny, as it touches all other keywords and subcategories that interact within the same mental field of the unconscious.

We see control (or lack thereof) as another theme in Freud’s essay, as almost all of the other key terms revolve around either the attempt to influence control or are being influenced by the fluctuations of control.

Toy Story, a movie about toys coming to life when their animate beings are not present.

A successful device of creating the uncanny is making inanimate objects, such as dolls, animate

Heimlich refers to the idea of familiarity with our environment, as well as creating an almost comfort with one’s environment. Unheimlich is the concept of the unknown. It is associated with being “bad,” but this is not truly the case. It tends to focus on something hidden being found.