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Doppelganger
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In other words, the double's imaginary power and resonance - the level upon which the subject's simultaneous estrangement from himself and intimacy with himself are played out - depends upon its lack of material being, upon the fact that the double is and remains a phantasy. Everyone may dream - and everyone no doubt does dream all his life long - of a perfect duplicate, or perfect multiple copies, of his own being; but the strength of such copies lies precisely in their dream quality, and is lo
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― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
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If you could establish your empires and settler colonial nations through ethnic cleansing massacres and land theft, then it is discrimination to say that we cannot. If you cleared your land of its Indigenous inhabitants, ... then it is anti-Semitic to say that we cannot.
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