was i you? were you me?

forgot to say on here but i’m now twenty fourrr which feels old as fuck

they think incest is a subversion of the nuclear family and not a product of it

“It is a tradition in the literature of the doppelgänger … that while the doppelgänger serves a distinct psychological purpose, it soon becomes a menace, a constant, invasive reminder of one’s own shortcomings. The protagonist is driven to kill the doppelganger as a means of survival. But as Otto Rank points out, to kill the double is essentially suicide – what he refers to as ‘the strange paradox of the suicide who voluntarily seeks death in order to free himself of the intolerable thanatophobia’ [ … ] The suicidal murder of the double is also underscored by a sense of the liebestod, or love-death, a marriage between the ego and its shadow-self though mutual obliteration.”