https://vo.rs/tags/psychological/Latest from the Psychological desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 14 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-doppelganger-film-and-the-anxiety-of-the-self/<p>The double is one of the oldest monsters in the box, older than the vampire and stranger than the ghost, and it has never needed fangs. The doppelganger frightens because it makes a quiet, unbearable suggestion: that the thing you believe is most singularly yours, your face, your voice, your one unrepeatable self, could be copied, and that the copy might be better at being you than you are. Freud filed this under the uncanny, the <em>unheimlich</em>, the sensation of something familiar turned wrong. Cinema, which is a machine for manufacturing doubles at twenty-four frames a second, has been circling it since the silent era.</p>Tue, 14 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000