A double who transformed politically makes Klein a double of a double

Evidence

And here’s an extra twist: My doppelganger is a person who has undergone such a dramatic political and personal transformation that many have commented that she seems like a doppelganger of her former self. Which, in a way, makes me a double of a double, an uncanny state of affairs even Freud did not anticipate. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 15

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does the ‘double of a double’ device — the loss of Naomi Wolf’s former leftist self — actually earn analytic weight later, or remain a clever conceit? This is exactly what the reader is tracking.