This type of rivalry does not destroy the reciprocity of human relations; rather it makes it more complete—in the sense of reprisals, of course, not of peaceful interaction. The more the antagonists desire to become different from each other, the more they become identical. Identity is realized in the hatred of the identical. This is the climactic moment that twins embody, or the enemy brothers of mythology such as Romulus and Remus. It is what I call a confrontation of doubles
