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Oryginał-sobowtór. W stronę archeologii perwowzoryzmu
Original-Double. Towards Archaeology of Archetypism

Author(s): Mariusz Jazowski
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

Summary/Abstract: The paper takes up the issue of ontology of the Doppelgänger and the ways it appears in human reality. For the sake of analysis, the author differentiates between three worldview formations: The Age of Ideas, The Age of Reason, and The Age of the Body, and discusses the ways in which the double is constructed in each of those formations, especially with reference to the mind and the body as two main identity carriers. Finally, the problem of Doppelgänger is discussed within the context of two oppositions: life – death and sacrum – profanum.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 93-106
  • Page Count: 14