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Ancient Greek and North American myth twins, for instance, are often produced by their mother’s sleeping with different fathers, one mortal, one divine, in quick succession. The most charged contrast isn’t between the Strong Twin and the Weak Twin, but between the Good and the Evil Twin. Iroquois mythology gives us Good Mind, who scatters attractive and delicious items over the earth’s surface for human use. The inability to distinguish twins from each other may also trigger a still more personal anxiety in singletons. The delusion of “clonal pluralization of the self” is the belief that the world contains multiple copies of oneself that are both physically and psychologically identical. Twins aren’t the only objects of binary thinking, though, so likely something more general is going on, too. Psychologists have suggested that binarization doesn’t only serve the personal needs of individual twins, but also the needs of their twinship.

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How to Be Multiple

The Philosophy of Twins

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