“The theme of the ‘double’ has been very thoroughly treated by Otto Rank (1914). He has gone into the connections which the ‘double’ has with reflections in mirrors. With shadows, with guardian spirits, with the belief in the soul and with the fear of death; but he also lets in a flood of light on the surprising evolution of the idea. For the ‘double’ was originally an insurance against the destruction of the ego, an ‘energetic denial of the power of death,’ as Rank says; and probably the ‘immortal’ soul was the first ‘double’ of the body. This invention of doubling as a preservation against extinction has its counterpart in the language of dreams, which is found of representing castration by a doubling or multiplication of a genital symbol...From having been an assurance of immortality, it becomes the uncanny harbinger of death.” --Freud, "The Uncanny"
sorry, i'm writing a paper on it right now, so i had to.
and just to make things even more uncanny, tom vek came on as i started to type this.
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--Freud, "The Uncanny"
sorry, i'm writing a paper on it right now, so i had to.
and just to make things even more uncanny, tom vek came on as i started to type this.
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