The 'uncanny' can be defined by the Freudian concept where something is familiar yet at the same time, seems foreign in some way; this results in an uncomfortable feeling of strangeness, for example, a mannequin or wax work may look human in appearance which causes a slight feeling of unease to the person viewing it as the individual is aware the mannequin is and cannot actually be human.
This can be supported by Ernst Jentsch's 'On the Psychology of the Uncanny' (1908) in which Jentsch considers 'uncanny' in the terms previously mentioned,
"...doubts whether an apparently animate being is really alive; or conversely whether a lifeless object might be, in fact, animate."
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