1. The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector

2. “The Face of Garbo” by Roland Barthes

4. “To make up for it she identified with the picture of the young Greta Garbo. To my surprise, since I didn’t imagine Macabea could feel what a face like that was saying. Greta Garbo, she thought without explaining herself, that must be the most important woman in the world. But what she really wanted to be wasn’t the haughty Greta Garbo whose tragic sensuality was on a solitary pedestal. What she wanted, as I said, was to look like Marilyn.”

6. Now Voyager, 1942

7. Edgar Morin, The Stars, 1957
For the soul is exactly that symbiotic site where real and imaginary encounter and feed on each other; love, that phenomenon of the soul that mingles most intimately our imaginary projection-identifications and our real life, assumes an increased importance.

8. The “I” is first of all an other, a double, revealed and localized in shadows, reflections, mirrors… The double has pasted himself against us, has become our “character,” the pretentious role we unceasingly play, as much for ourselves as for anyone else. The duality is ultimately internalized: it is a dialogue with our soul, our conscience.