THE MIRROR OF TWIN
Juliet and I had polka
with my dad we identified.
-Yvonne Venegas
double
The problem appeared much earlier in the literature in psychiatry. Pre-Freudian poets and storytellers, and Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, glimpsed in the dark layers of personality physical presence, real or imagined, of a "double" in which "tells us Mario Pratz-man thinks he sees the shadow of itself same projected by the unconscious. Hoffmann, in the elixirs of the devil, has the split personality as a phenomenon that summons the powers of evil, demonic instance in all of us. Both
Poe in his short story "William Wilson" and Dostoevsky's novel The Double discerned the appearance of the other voice, the other self, the divided self, and drew up the character talks to himself as if speaking to his own conscience. The narrator of Poe is so harassed by the admonitions of William Wilson, his double, "an imitation of me," which ends up killing him.
In the case of Dostoevsky, whose characters always have a double, the second voice can not merge with our hero. "On the contrary," says Mikhail Bakhtin, "it sounds more and more the tone of mockery treacherous. That voice provokes and taunts our hero, and finally removes the mask. Appears twice. The internal conflict is dramatized, the game starts with our hero twice. "
However, the most famous story of a split was imagined by Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hhyde, from a dream. The monster of what could be a metaphor for depression, or schizophrenia, takes possession of Dr. Jekyll and leads him to run over a child as a child kills another character unfolded: Frankenstein Mary Shelley.
"The other one, Borges, to whom things happen," wrote Jorge Luis Borges in "Borges and I".
"De Borges I have news in the mail and see his name on a list of professors ... I do not know which one is writing this page. "And what of his story" The Other ", when it appears Borges Borges in Boston, opposite the Charles River?
literature topics glide without apparent transition to life itself and of otherness (the other, double, split, personal identity) circulated a lot, at least until the mid-sixties, studies on twins. It was hoped to discern some of the mysteries of schizophrenia and indeed the analysis were not entirely idle, when it was retarded autistic twins. However, "Oliver Sacks has in his disturbing book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" the reality is much stranger and more complex and less explicable than it suggests any of these studies.
In the story that includes "Twins," Sacks is careful not to generalize and is specific to twins John and Michael met in 1966 and became famous for their exceptional memory for numbers and his ability to tell what day of the week fell an arbitrary date for the next forty thousand years.
Sacks feel what is there to see them without bias, as individuals, not as "subjects" without the desire to define or prove. "You see that there is something there that is acting very mysterious, you see power and depths of a genre perhaps fundamental."
is certainly not easy and yes very distressing individuation process which has to pass the newborn during the first months in this world to become independent and distinguishable from other and presumably for the twins this step may be a capsize. But every mind is a language and every human being, unique, fortunately. So much has moved me the courage and health-and talent-that photographer Yvonne Venegas has dared to address the issue of twin-sister to the great singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas, Tijuana, in his book The time we spent together, text and photographs to the magazine forward partly Luna cornea in number 14.
"I have my theories about relationships like ours. I think that having shared the womb has assigned us each a part of what would be the temperament of an individual. So we can say that our temperaments were both born on the other end. Maybe it's like the relationships of many years, which used to be together and have been accommodating themselves to be part of each other.
"I have been asked many times if you take pictures of Juliet is not like take pictures of myself. But living with a person who is physically equal to one since birth, does not make you a mirror of it but its opposite, "writes Yvonne.
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