Abstract: Patrick White has long been the focus of critical attention. Yet hardly any critics have touched upon the Doppelganger motif in the novels of Patrick White, not to mention an in-depth interpretation of the motif. Doppelganger works as a liberator of feeling and intuition in White’s novels, opening horizons beyond social patterns, rational decisions, and institutionally approved emotions. White presents the psychological deviations and explores the repression, anxiety, and fear in modern psyche. Doppelganger motif helps White to present his characters’ quest for self. Each of them finds a self in the other. Doppelganger in White’s novels is not so much about personal identity as about the lack of it. The divided self in his novels is a metaphor of the modern identity crisis.

Key words: Patrick White, Doppelganger, self, other