![]() Borges’s public “yo” versus his private “self” would be analogous with Jung’s psychological analyses which he performed continuously on himself as patient and analyst, as well as Lorca’s public persona as presumed “heterosexual” versus his private “yo” as homosexual. ![]() Also worth pointing out is Borges’s own obsession, in typical Unamunian fashion, with his “other” self. ![]() Borges himself would come to the same conclusion, as Arana observes, in perceiving the transcendence of archetypal over the socio-historical and literary perspectives: “De vez en cuando descubrimos sorprendentes coincidencias entre autores que no han podido entablar ningún contacto” (162). Needless to say, I am not referring to a direct literary influence between authors, rather to the more implicit presence of all three figures through reader interpretative perception. ![]()
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