“Twin brothers to life and death”
,
“Inseparable until the end, they will be buried together…”
Last January, the death six days apart of the famous twins of the PAF Igor and Grichka Bogdanov caused many to sink 'ink.
An extraordinary phenomenon that questions our identity and our uniqueness,
“twinning has always fascinated people and civilizations
,” says psychologist Fabrice Bak, author of
Twins.
25 stories to make twinning a strength
(Solar Éditions, 2021).
"Considered, in some cultures, as a blessing from the gods, twins can also be those who bring misfortune, like Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, who symbolize the struggle for power"
, he recalls.
The twins also inspire comic book authors (Dupont and Dupond in Tintin) or cinema (
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
, by Jacques Demy).
And, with later pregnancies and the more frequent use of medically assisted procreation, they have…
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