Le double

The relationship with the other one, with one’s double — real or imaginary — is, for the human being, an issue that crosses philosophy, art, and also psychopathology. From examples taken in these various fields, I propose to discuss what the relationship with the double condenses. I distinguish three main axes. The first one attempts to describe the double as participant in the construction of oneself, in the feeling of identity, in the construction of the system of «same.» The second concerns the double as the relationship with oneself, with the other one, and with the time which passes. To this respect, the double also ask the question of the transmission. The last axis tries to show how the double also comes to join in certain cases as fate of the desire of eternity, or immortality, as track left after death, the witness of a search for god or other forms of spirituality.