Heautoskopie

Japanese: Heautoskopie
Heautoskopie

...In modern literature, this theme appears in a variety of ways in the works of ETA Hoffmann, EA Poe, Dostoevsky, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Today, however, the term "double" is often used to mean "self-image hallucination," in which one sees oneself, that is, another version of oneself, and it generally appears as a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia and epilepsy. Even normal people can sometimes experience this, and it is explained as a case in which the level of consciousness is lowered to a certain extent due to overwork or mental stress, and as a result, one's own body image is dislocated to the outside world and takes on a sensory quality. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Heautoskopie" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…近代文学でも,E.T.A.ホフマン,E.A.ポー,ドストエフスキー,芥川竜之介らの作品にこの主題が多彩な内容で登場する。 今日ではしかし,二重身というと,自分自身の姿,つまりもう一人の自分を自分で見るという〈自己像幻視Heautoskopie〉の意味で用いられることが多く,精神病,とくに精神分裂病や癲癇(てんかん)の症状として一般に現れる。正常者でもときに体験することがあり,過労や心労によって意識水準がある程度低下し,そのため自己の身体像が外界に転位されて感覚性を帯びたものと説明される。…

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