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A doppelgänger [a] (/ ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər,-ɡ æ ŋ-/ DOP-əl-gheng-ər, -gang-), sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart.
The syndrome of subjective doubles is a rare delusional misidentification syndrome in which a person experiences the delusion that they have a double or Doppelgänger with the same appearance, but usually with different character traits, that is leading a life of its own.
A look-alike, or double, is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance.
The Gothic double is a literary motif which refers to the divided personality of a character. Closely linked to the Doppelgänger, which first appeared in the 1796 novel Siebenkäs by Johann Paul Richter, the double figure emerged in Gothic literature in the late 18th century due to a resurgence of interest in mythology and folklore which explored notions of duality, such as the fetch in Irish ...
The Justice Department just last month announced it had disrupted some such Russian operations, called “Doppelganger,” including RT employees who helped set up a U.S. company to pay right-wing ...
A 23-year-old woman searched for a lookalike on Instagram and killed her with a friend in order to stage her own death, prosecutors and police in Germany say.
Doppelganger (Brennan novel), a 2006 fantasy novel by Marie Brennan; The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy, 2010 book by Dimitris Vardoulakis; Doppelganger, a 2008 novel by Pete Hautman; Doppelganger, a 2010 novel by Jenny Valentine; The Doppelganger, a 1936 novel by Hammond Innes; Doppelganger, a 2023 non-fiction book by Naomi Klein
Us, Jordan Peele’s terrifying doppelganger chiller, may be Nyong’o’s finest hour so far: she unlocks a haunted strength in one half of a pair of sibling duplicates, and an eerie, grisly ...