Holography and the Imaginary Double: The Image of Body

The kinship that holograms have with hallucination and mirage leads the author to a theoretical reflection on the imaginary Double as related to the image of the body. This correspondence to the archetype of human thought is one of the main formal specificities of pulsed holography, besides of course the illusion of the third dimension. The author uses this correspondence as a means of discussing the contemporary tendency of art and culture to reduplicate themselves, thereby almost creating their own imaginary Doubles.