Sandmann

Poetic take on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s tale of gothic terror The Sandman (1816) and Sigmund Freud’s essay The Uncanny (1919). Hoffmann’s short story became for Freud a fertile ground for his enquiry into concepts of doppelgangers, fear of death, castration anxiety, the evil eye, automatons, return of the repressed and repetition.