Word: doppelg
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...potential murders, apparent suicides, strangely worded wills. For a romantic setting there is the 17th century chateau of St. Gilles, not unlike Daphne Du Maurier's own sprawling, 70-room Menabilly House on the Cornish coast, great and gloomy original for Rebecca's legendary Manderley. No reasonable Doppelgänger could wish for an eerier home-away-from-home...
...shall make you a confession ... I have been struggling with the question of why I have never, in all these years, made an effort to meet you ... I think I have avoided you out of a kind of fear of finding my own double [Doppelgänger Furcht] . . . When I read one of your beautiful works I seem to encounter again and again, behind the poetic fiction, the very presumptions, interests and conclusions so well known to me from my own thoughts . . . Your ability to be deeply moved by the truths of the unconscious, the recurrence of your thoughts...
...published in the U.S.) has now been brought to light by Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Herbert I. Kupper, to make a point about Freud and his theories. It suggests, Dr. Kupper told the American Psychoanalytic Association, not only that Freud was capable of believing in the mystical concept of the Doppelgänger,* but that his teachings themselves had a striking Doppelgänger...