The Seba library treats Double in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including Janet, Pierre, Thomson, Lenore, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph D).
it is a feeling in its entirety, a more or less precise feeling that has separated from general consciousness, and that develops in an independent way
Janet identifies the double personality as arising when a complete affective complex dissociates from central consciousness and develops autonomously, establishing the clinical foundation for depth-psychological theorizing about the divided self.
, The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, 1907thesis
Azam, Dr., case of double personality reported by, 78-82 ... Prince, Morton, 4, 331; cited concerning double personalities, 67; observations of Miss Beauchamp, 85.
This index entry maps the genealogy of clinical double-personality cases across Janet's predecessors and contemporaries, situating the concept within a recognized pre-Freudian research tradition.
, The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, 1907supporting
Personalities, double. See Double Personalities.
The index cross-reference confirms 'double personalities' as Janet's canonical nosological term, directing readers to its full clinical elaboration and anchoring the nomenclature in the hysteria literature.
, The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, 1907supporting
double agents activate the opposite brain hemisphere. Serving largely as a maintenance crew on our typological ship, they tend to mutiny when they get the chance.
Thomson translates the concept of the double into Jungian typology, casting the auxiliary contra-preferential functions as 'double agents' that both support and subvert the dominant typological orientation.
, Personality Type: An Owner's Manual, 1998supporting
a woman has tremendous powers when the dual aspects of psyche are consciously recognized and beheld as a unit; held together rather than held apart. The power of Two is very strong
Estés reframes psychological doubling through mythopoetic and folk-religious lenses, arguing that the conscious integration of dual psychic aspects — rather than their opposition — constitutes a source of uncanny feminine power.
, Women Who Run With the Wolves Myths and Stories of the Wild, 2017supporting
the word has been considered to be a denominative of *δι-στ-ός = Skt. dvi-?th-a- 'double', ON tvi-st-r 'sad', properly *'split in two', from IE *dui-sth2-o-
Beekes traces the Greek verb for 'hesitation' (distázō) to the Proto-Indo-European root for 'double,' etymologically grounding psychological ambivalence in the ancient linguistic concept of being split in two.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
Double law, double tables of the law, double temple, double captivity.
Pascal deploys 'double' as a typological-hermeneutic category in his theology of figuration, where duality structures the correspondence between Old and New Testaments — a usage that resonates with depth psychology's interest in symbolic parallelism.
, Pensées, 1670aside
There is the 'I am you and you are me,' in it, and that is the element
Von Franz, in alchemical-psychological commentary, invokes the mutual identification formula of Isis as an instance of the doubled self — the collapse of subject-object distinction that marks the limit of analytical articulation.
, Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, 1980aside