I (me) as the Other - A Double as a Lacanian Mirror Image in the Thanatological approach to "Decadent Films"
The article focuses on the concept of the Other and the images of otherworldy doubles regarded through the prism of the Lacanian concept of the "mirror image" in the, so-called, "decadent" trend in early and contemporary Russian film. Three main patterns of "mirror" identification with the Other are constructedon the basis of various films' analyses: "I (the subject) - me (the mirror image) as an otherworldy double", "I (me) - simulacrum: alive and dead", "Me-in-perspective: the image of the older sister".