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THE AVATAR IN PANAMA - Theses - Flinders University

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1.2 Fantastic Psychoanalysis and the Doppelganger The Avatar in Panamapower that comes from not existing doubly and so his existencecondemns to death the person he is doubling.As evidenced above, modern subjects regularly depict aninterior psychic fragmentation. Jaramillo Levi’s characters are alsoshown in a state of internal demise often resulting in a fusion, anabsorption, or a physical and mental collapse. Sá-Carneiro’sprotagonist feels the impending loss of identity in the form of personalitydisintegration and so too does the tortured victim in Jaramillo Levi’s “Lasombra”:Por un rato me desplazo, soy nube radioactiva,floto, me disuelvo; otra vez reconozco losconfines del cuarto y busco el espejo, mebusco, necesito saber si aún estoy aquí, siexisto; […] me desplazo hacia el cuerpo quecontinúa mirándose en el espejo; me fundo conél; estoy al borde del abismo; sé que elmomento del colapso no demora. 105Psychologically, the victim is ruined and claims “he tenido quehundirme en la demencia” to stave off the physical pain of theinterrogation (81).In “La fuente”, a fusion of the living with the dead occurs only toresurrect the latter: “mi piel traspasó lentamente el cristal y de prontoera una con tu piel. Permanecimos así, unidos por una absorbentetibieza”. 106 As with Sá-Carneiro’s “Eu-Próprio O Outro”, after its initialappearance the double wishes to absorb the original:Dio un paso hacia mí para anexarme a sufracaso, para fundirse con mi cuerpo hecho deenergía y de voluntad de ser. Pero yo salté depronto a su encuentro, fui yo quien entró en sufigura y le impulsé mi vocación de permanencia.Fuimos uno nuevamente (13).The classic dependency between the double and the originalalso exists in the work of Jaramillo Levi; a joint reliance is apparent inhis “Fiesta del sótano” in which doubles become multiples and theinterdependence of the yo and the replicas is patent:Yo sentí que me dividía, que cada estratovertical de mi cuerpo iba adquiriendo105 Jaramillo Levi, “La sombra”, Ahora que soy él, 79-81.106 Jaramillo Levi, “La fuente”, Ahora que soy él, 10.64

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