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In German, however, unheimlich (uncanny) stands opposite to heimlich (familiar; belonging to the house, homey).
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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In German, however, unheimlich (uncanny) stands opposite to heimlich (familiar; belonging to the house, homey).
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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He contended that the link between the German words for “uncanny” (unheimlich) and “familiar” (heimlich) suggests an inner connection between the two.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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He contended that the link between the German words for “uncanny” (unheimlich) and “familiar” (heimlich) suggests an inner connection between the two.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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How do you give a car the heimlich when it starts chocking on a chicken wing?
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Through this activity, the alien world of nature becomes heimlich or a “home” with familiar coordinates and relations that we can navigate.
Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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As such, onticology occupies the position of the analyst, refusing to say in advance what the world is or what objects populate it, instead siding with the remainders that do not fit with categories of mind or language, signs, encyclopedias, or any other pacifying bromides we might concoct to render the world heimlich.
Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Cute girl: heimlich, heimlich, heimlich orlo jscottd
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As such, onticology occupies the position of the analyst, refusing to say in advance what the world is or what objects populate it, instead siding with the remainders that do not fit with categories of mind or language, signs, encyclopedias, or any other pacifying bromides we might concoct to render the world heimlich.
Sri Aurobindo has linked our individual psychology with the workings of the universe Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Through this activity, the alien world of nature becomes heimlich or a “home” with familiar coordinates and relations that we can navigate.
Sri Aurobindo has linked our individual psychology with the workings of the universe Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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