Folie à Deux: Our connections run deep

What Cronenberg's Dead Ringers tells us about our porous egos

Photo by Alonso Reyes on Unsplash

Throughout life, we (usually) trust what others say to us, and they (usually) trust what we say to them. We can even enter a mutually-reinforcing state of rapport with each other, where we both find our willingness to engage in self-revelation and self-disclosure rolls along easily and without impediment.

We ‘click’; we …