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Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia

By Roger Caillois , John Shepley

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
1984
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3078482 bytes)
Series
Papers
Pages
18\18
Time added
2017-12-15 00:01:13

Description

From whatever side one approaches things, the ultimate problem turns out in the final analysis to be that of distinction: distinctions between the real and the imaginary, between waking and sleeping, between ignorance and knowledge, etc. - all of them, in short, distinctions in which valid consideration must demonstrate a keen awareness and the demand for resolution. Among distinctions, there is assuredly none more clear-cut than that between the organism and its surroundings; at least there is none in which the tangible experience of separation is more immediate. So it is worthwhile to observe the phenomenon with particular attention and, within the phenomenon, what is even more necessary, given the present state of our knowledge, is to consider its condition as pathology (the word here having only a statistical meaning)-i.e., all the facts that come under the heading of mimicry.

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