Encountering a doppelganger undermines illusions of personal and group sovereignty

Evidence

But doppelgangers, by messing with our heads and our illusions of sovereignty, can help teach us this lesson: that we are not as separate from one another as we might think. Not as individuals, and perhaps not even as groups of individuals who have been born into various kinds of seemingly eternal fratricidal duels. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1067

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the mechanism statement Klein builds her device around: the doppelganger dissolves the boundary of the self — and by extension of the group.
• QUESTION: Core methodological question for this reader: does extending the doppelganger from the individual self to whole ‘fratricidal duels’ (Palestine/Israel) hold analytically?