I developed the idea of "shamanistic doubling" as a way to put across a certain methodology of dialectics to those who had no capacity to conceptualise anything more than relatively stable metaphysical essences.
So, to have the kind of vision that takes into account the likely or possible effects how identities can expand or contract in response to particular kinds of violence or provocations -- I call that kind of an awareness an awareness of shamanistic doubling. It's like seeing beyond the person to the kinds of responses they are likely to have to different types of pressure. They respond by changing and/or by hiding something of themselves. In every interaction that involves pressure, they become something other than they had been.
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