eidolon

In the background of all we fancy a hideous Eidolon, from whose side even the damned recoil in loathing.

Whichever way she turned the eidolon of Caroline met her as a bar to all further progress in her design upon the Intendant.

I could thus see myself, gazing through my dream eyes on my eidolon, as if it were only a reflection in a mirror.

The Homeric solution is to divide the man, or to double him, into his shade (eidolon) and his self.

But if any one likes let us leave him a mere Eidolon, an earlier "Great Unknown."