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Pierre Fédida (1934-2002) was a psychoanalyst and philosopher, member of the Association psychanalytique de France and the International Psychoanalytic Association, a Professor of the University of Paris and founder of the Laboratory of Fundamental Psychopathology, the Centre de l'étude du vivant and the Institute for Contemporary Thought (all three in Paris). The dynamics of the critical and the clinical are particularly manifest in "Anxiety in the Eyes", where Fédida moves from acute attention to Freud's considerations on the "genitality" of the eye, so to speak, to a close reading of 'The "Uncanny"', and indeed of Hoffmann's "The Sandman" itself. With reference to Schelling's definition of I unheimlich i that Freud admires in his essay, we could say that regression is like a secret that Fédida wishes to bring to light, if not fully surmount ([15], pp. 241, 249). [Extracted from the article]