Dead Ringers: a Contemporary Narrative about Twinning, Sterility and Incest
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Starting from the idea of mythical texture – this persistent and flexible plot able to intertwine with other narrative yarns or fabrics –, this article proposes a reflection on the way the ideal of a perfect twinning, common to Indo-European tradition, has been updated in contemporary narratives. Having as a guideline of this reflection David Cronenberg’s feature film Dead Ringers (1989) – featuring gynecologist twins as main characters – the symbolic discourse of the plot that interweaves twinning, sterility and incest is analyzed. Ultimately it is about disentangling, in the tangle of its meshes, the coherence of a symbolic discourse about twinning, in its limits and utopia.Downloads
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