A hypothesis on the Double from the point of view of complexity

The theme of the Double has its roots in ancient mythology and philosophy and accompanies epistemological passages and changes to contemporary thought. Psychoanalysis, the daughter of a positivist epistemology, although it had been occupied from the beginning, limited its gaze to a rigidly monopersonal vision. More than a century has passed and now we can try to approach the theme of the double with a look that is consistent with current models. In the light of the complexity, the cardinal points of psychoanalysis have undergone some adjustments, while the issues of identity and relationship have become more and more important and topical, and these issues lead us to the centre of the problem of the double. In a perspective that sees the experiential subject at the centre of his world and emerging from relationships, this figure can become a metaphor for the way we come into contact, distinguish and know ourselves and the other. That is, it could express the specific way we define the environment and define ourselves with respect to it (interpretation of the external world and construction of the internal world), in a condition of perfect reciprocity and without interruption.