Freud’s contribution to understanding the Gothic

At the Freud museum I learned that Freud helped us understand the Gothic a bit better by giving us a description of the uncanny, it is the line between reality and fiction when something is close but not exactly right which causes an uncomfortable feeling for the reader. I also learned that in Freud's time showing large amounts of emotion was highly unusual and regarded as Hysteria, this "disease" was primarily diagnosed in higher class women who had the money to see a psychiatrist such as Freud. Freud thought hysteria was caused by an inter conflict between a wish and is repression. With this information I can say that Freud did help the understanding of the Gothic because the uncanny is commonly used as a Gothic concept in many old and modern stories, and Hysteria is the repression of wishes or dreams and anything being repressed will cause a want for rebellion from the normal.