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The human being as multiplicity: mask, "doppelgรคnger" and puppet

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Since modern man has dramatically realized that the unity of the human being is an illusion some of the highest minds of his consortium have sought - in a uncanny game of masks, mirrors and dolls - to understand how to integrate one's infinite personalities and overcome the existential nihilism that such masks potentially offer: from ETA Hoffmann's โ€œThe Sandmanโ€ and EA Poe's โ€œWilliam Wilsonโ€ to Hermann Hesse's โ€œThe Steppe Wolfโ€; from the contemporary cinema of Roman Polanski and David Lynch to Thomas Ligotti's "marionette metaphysics" and HP Lovecraft's "cosmic horror".

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Eyes, puppets and doppelgรคnger: the "uncanny" in "Der Sandmann" by ETA Hoffmann (I)

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Two centuries after its publication, ETA Hoffmann's "Man of the Sand" is still today one of the literary works indispensable for understanding the poetics of the "uncanny", destined to influence the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jentsch, the works of Hesse and Machen, the films of Lynch and Polanski.

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