CHILEAN SCIENCE FICTION AND PSY-KNOWLEDGE: THE PROBLEM OF THE DOUBLE IN HUGO CORREA'S LOS TITERES

Hugo Correa's work now enjoys wide recognition, both national international, and is considered a milestone in the development of Chilean science fiction. In addition to his celebrated novel Los altisimos, his collection of short stories Los titeres has also attracted significant interest for the way in which it addresses the effects progress and industrialization on the era's subjectivity. The present work seeks to examine, on the one hand, how the classic motif of the double is revisited through the codes of science fiction and, on the other hand, the way in which puppets, lookalikes and doubles challenge alterity, revealing the confluence of literary techniques and the themes of psy-knowledge. This analysis will demonstrate that, while problematizing the relations of human beings with a technological future, the short stories of Los titeres like-wise exhibit the influence of psychological principles and psychopathological concepts through their plots and characters.