Here's your screenshot of Diane squared at the motel. She's looking at herself from the car.
Hey that was weird, I tried posting a pic from Evangelion, but definitely DID NOT get that from the Google search on that image.
Here's the correct picture
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To restate, I wanted to thank you for posting this pic, and point out this sort of "character looking at herself" or dual occurs several times in Evangelion, including the above pic again.
I'm now wondering if there's a motif of "miraged view of yourself" in other films? I'm wondering if both Lynch and Anno (the creator of Evangelion) both got the inspirations to do this sort of quick scene from something else.
What comes to mind immediately, was an episode of Twilight Zone I saw many years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Image_(The_Twilight_Zone)
This is probably too much on the nose, I feel Lynch's "duals" are more abstract. But might be worth a review of this episode. Lynch would almost certainly have been a consumer of Twilight Zone in his early youth/adulthood.
Think also worth reading into dopplegangers through a Jungian lense aswell....Joseph Campbell too and his 'journey of a hero' lots of talk here on the fracturing of the psyche in dreams, visions etc in order to heal the self. Lots of Jung applicable in the archetypes used and Both Cooper and Laura's journey. There was a really interesting thread on here of a Buddhist perspective on Cooper as a boddisatva trying to free himself and others from samsara. I liked this essay. Not amazingly written but great points pre this season and how it links with esoteric practices and Jungian/Campbell's pathway of a hero etc
http://zoraburden.weebly.com/the-esoteric-symbolism-of-twin-peaks.html
Great ideas here. After watching the ending a second time, I'm now less sure about the prime vs alternate reality theory. Cooper says "we are all in a dream", and much like Dorothy or Alice who have defeated the enemy, completed their quest, and are returning to their real lives, he bids farewell to his friends and says he would like to see them all again sometime. Then without a clear transition from the sheriff's station, he passes through the Great Northern steamroom door alone, fails to bring back Laura, and the morning after he passes through the portal with Diane, he eventually wakes up as Richard. Yet, if all of Twin Peaks up to episode 18 was an elaborate dream, why does "Carrie" seem emotionally struck by the name of Laura's mother, Sarah? Why does she scream at the end when she hears her voice, and why does Richard continue to think he's Cooper? Other elements from the prime reality, mainly black lodge phenomena, also bleed into the next one - mention of the Chalfonts/Tremonds residing in the Palmer House, the number 6 on the power line pole by Carrie's house, Diane's tulpa double. Despite all of the unresolved storylines, I'm starting to appreciate the ending. Cheers.
Also how would he know about the RR Diner, which they pass in Twin Peaks if he had never been there before?
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