God bless you and keep you from harm, this day and forever.

Are our thoughts 'ours' ? Where to they come from? Why is "hypocrisy" treated as a secular sin by the cultists? When we say of someone she or he "wasn't herself" who was she?

Vincent Van Gogh thought it was "the double' and became obsessed with The Horla, a short story written by French contemporary writer Guy de Maupassant.

'''Le Horla is studied here as a negative, « detransitionalized » form of the double, which threatens the subject’s identity with a confusion between inside and outside, what is present and what is absent, between the familiar and the strange, in and out (hors/là). Following the hypothesis suggested by the author, le Horla is evidence of the failure of internalizing a transitional double, both similar to and different from the self.

The analysis of the negative hallucination in the mirror shows, on the contrary, the narrator’s inability to recognize the presence of the other in himself, which will eventually lead to his death. '''

Le Horla

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