#doubleness

Capitalist production (...) forms by deforming, civilizes by barbarising, enriches by impoverishing — a two-sided process in which each affirmation entails a negation.

In the case of duplication, the second self or double appears, as it were, from outside the first self; whereas in the case of division, as in the Jekyll-Hyde personality, it splits off from within. For our practical purposes here this difference is of only minor importance next to what is essential to both, the disintegration of the person.

The division of one psychological event into two apparently different stories.

Any dire knowledge that is shared but cannot be acknowledged to be shared — that is, as it were, shared separately — has the effect of rendering the people, whom it ought to bind together, into an irrevocable doubleness.

I am a maker of what is real. A bird's voice, speaking the language of birds, I flutter in the whirlwind. A twin, condemned to holy ignorance, I construct the double's secrets, a bird and child language, apprehensible in the cutting, or in the chase.