Twins and the double
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TextSeries: (Art and Imagination)New York Thames and Hudson c1993Description: 96p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; bibliogContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0500810427
- GR472 .L37 1993
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Part 1 - Twins and the double. Twins and twinning. Twin gods and firstborn parents. The bond of rival brothers. Doubles, or metamorphic twinning. Scapegoat and sacrifice. Lovers and soul-mates. Genetics, cloning, and the biological duad. Part 2 - Plates. Part 3 - Themes. Genetics and biological twins. First parents and ancestral pairs. Totemic doubles. Animal powers. Demonic doubles, realm of the nightmare. Metamorphosis of the soul. Warring and rivalry among twins. Scapegoat and sacrifice. Tabu and fetish. Androgynes and the sexual dyad. Lovers and soul-mates. Heavenly twins. Mirrors and optical illusions. Imitative twinning, magical duplication. Light and darkness, sun and moon
'Twins arouse our sense of awe, as they have in many societies around the world. Jacob and Esau, Horus and Set, Jekyll and Hyde--all these and many more are recurrent pairs who lure us into the world found through the looking-glass. John Lash brings together genetics, psychology, mythology and art to elucidate their fascinating lore and reveal the enigma of the dyadic principle common to modern and archaic intuition alike.'
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