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Farago insists that he doesn’t mean to “rant” about how culture was better in the past but instead wants to ask “why cultural production no longer progresses in time as it once did.” In other words, why are there no master narratives? What happened to a recognizable zeitgeist, and to a sense of progress, to teleology? These are basically the concerns raised in the 1980s by the “postmodern turn,” and Farago dutifully mentions Jameson and Virilio as heralds of postmodernism’s emergence (Lyotard didn’t make the cut for some reason).
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The Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank, who collaborated closely and later broke with Freud, saw the soul—the self believed to live beyond the body after death—as the original doppelganger, the most intimate of doubles. The choice to believe in a soul, he wrote, was “a wish defense against a dreaded eternal destruction.”10 Freud concurred, writing, “The double was originally an insurance against the extinction of the self … ‘an energetic denial of the power of death’, and it seems likely that the ‘immortal’ soul was the first double of the body.”
The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
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