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Doppelgänger : analysing 'doubles' across antiquity, fiction, psychopathology and neuroscience /

"Aimed at psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists and literary scholars, this book is an in-depth study of the doppelganger phenomenon, taking an interdisciplinary approach through antiquity, fiction, psychopathology, and neuroscience. It aims to establish the experience of the self, as w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oyebode, Femi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Doppelgängers.
Self.
Psychology, Pathological.
Moi (Psychologie)
Psychopathologie.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The double in antiquity
  • The double as other in the novel
  • The double as duality in fiction
  • Implicit double in fiction
  • The double in film
  • The double in clinical psychopathology
  • The double in neuroscience
  • The ultimate illusion: understanding embodiment and the self.