Clément Rosset and the duplication of the real. The paradox of the actor between the failed protection and the joyous acceptance

Abstract

In The real and its double, Clément Rosset points out to the paradoxical structure of duplication of the world, the man and the events operated by the illusion that yearns to be, at the same time, itself and another. Two ethic alternatives would come out: to protect yourself from the real by the paradoxical and failed creation of a double, or accept it through the heroic jubilation. This structure, in fact, refers to the paradox that, since Diderot, would characterize the actor in scene: “to become everyone, being no one”. Taking the image of that same actor – this time, focusing the processes of cultivation and incorporation that, according to Stanislasvki, would make up the character – we intend to present a third possibility,known by the Greeks, whose principle demands to dominate kairós, the opportune time to the action, and then, stealing from the chances the cunning that turns them into fate.