Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his contemporaries. In his biographical essay on da Vinci, included in this volume, he deconstructs both his character and the nature of his genius.
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| List of illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| The uncanny: an introduction | |
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| Supplement: 'The Sandman' | |
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| Literature, teaching, psychoanalysis | |
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| Film | |
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| The death drive | |
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| Silence, solitude and ... | |
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| Darkness | |
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| Night writing: deconstruction reading politics | |
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| Inexplicable | |
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| Buried alive | |
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| Deja vu | |
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| The double | |
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| Chance encounter | |
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| Cannibalism: for starters | |
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| Manifestations of insanity: Hunger and contemporary fiction | |
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| A crowded after-life | |
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| To be announced | |
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| Mole | |
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| The 'telepathy effect': notes toward a reconsideration of narrative fiction | |
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| Phantom text | |
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| The private parts of Jesus Christ | |
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| Book end: deja vu (reprise) | |
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| The uncanny: a bibliography | |
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| Index | |
