| The Other Self: Psychopathology and Literature. | |
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PMID: 21826505 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The figure of the "double" or the other self is an important topic in the history of literature. Many centuries before Jean Paul Richter coined the term, "doppelgänger," at the beginning of the Romantic Movement in the year 1796, it is possible to find the figure of the double in myths and legends. The issue of the double emphaszses the contradictory character of the human being and invokes a sinister dimension of the psychological world, what has been called in German as "umheimlich." However, does multiciplicity always involve pathology? Related to this figure in literary history, a new perspective from clinical psychology called "dialogical self" defines the self as a multi-voice reality. Along the same line, postmodernist psychology considers the self a discursive construction. From these perspectives, the "self" is situated a long way away from the classical essential conception of the self. In this paper, we review briefly some important landmarks of the figure of the double in the literature, and we compare the coincidences of the "double" experiencies described in literature with the experiences of our patients. Finally, we discuss how this literary tradition can help us to understand new psychological perspectives. |
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Javier Saavedra Macías; Rafael Velez Núñez |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-8-9 |
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Title: The Journal of medical humanities Volume: - ISSN: 1573-3645 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Aug |
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Created Date: 2011-8-9 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8917478 Medline TA: J Med Humanit Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain, fjsaavedra@us.es. |
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