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Volume 18 - Number 2 - September 2011,
Pages: 123 - 247
Section: THE RUDOLPH BINION MEMORIAL
Binion, R. (2011). My own identical twin [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 18(2), 209. https://doi.org/10.70763/c457d7ae48d08a6b84bc0b1b9bd7d474
My Own Identical Twin (poem)
Keywords: identical twin, introspection, memorial, poem, psychohistory, self-analysis, sibling dynamics, true self
I am my own identical twin
Faithful in sameness through thick and thin,
Loyally standing by my side,
Nay, closer still, astride my hide;
Alike in all extrinsics; more,
Intrinsically to the core
Mistakable for my true self;
Retrieved from a redundants’ shelf,
A pinch hit for the real McCoy,
Which claims an exclusivity
Though stitch for stitch, son of a bitch,
There’s just no telling which is which.
In sum, I know not which is me
And which myself in effigy.
Page 209
Editor’s Note: Rudolph Binion’s poem, previously unpublished and untitled, was written several months before his death
Authors:
Rudolph Binion
Rudolph Binion (1927-2011) was an American historian. His areas of expertise were modern European intellectual and cultural history and psychohistory. Rudolph Binion lived in Paris for six years, where he obtained a diploma from the Institut d’études politiques and worked as a statistician for UNESCO. He received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and his doctorate in 1958. After teaching at Rutgers University, MIT, and Columbia University, Binion was appointed Professor of Modern European History at Brandeis University in 1967. In his best-known and most influential book—Hitler Among the Germans (1976)—Binion attempted to explain Adolf Hitler’s personality and political beliefs by means of psychoanalysis. After a long illness, Binion died in May 2011 at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. [Translated from his Wikipedia page.]
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Binion, R. (2011). My own identical twin [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 18(2), 209. https://doi.org/10.70763/c457d7ae48d08a6b84bc0b1b9bd7d474PDF downloads:
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