Encounters with one’s double shatter pre-planned emotional responses

Evidence

Real Roth is destabilized yet again. He had planned for a showdown over who was the rightful owner of their face and name and finds himself being adored instead. He is not able to muster the rage he had pre-scripted, but neither can he share Fake Roth’s familial delight in looking into a living mirror. After all, he has a name to protect. “Your name! Your name! Do you ever, ever, ever think of anything other than your fucking name!” Jinx demands. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 462

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s tracking of the doubling device—Klein identifies what happens when the double refuses to be the villain, a template for how her own Wolfe encounter worked. — connects to: Lesions hitting emotion-producing brain mechanisms alter identity — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 489